A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2025This immersive epic reveals the origins of the American empire and the lives of those who promoted it and those who resisted it.In 1898, the United States gained an empire, and—many allege—lost its soul. In just a few dramatic weeks, American forces wrested Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines from Spanish rule, but their “splendid little war” had a long and difficult aftermath, ...

Scott Walker not only told Joe Jackson during the triple set of in-depth interviews they did in 1995 - one for radio, one for a rock magazine and the other for The Irish Times newspaper - that he remembered and really liked to review Jackson did of walkers album Climate of Hunter in 1984. He said it helped him redefine for himself how his music could best be described at that point. Then, in 2003, Jackson was informed that Scott Walker wanted to use as the booklet notes in the forthcoming ...

Joe Jackson is a life-long Scott Walker fan who, after interviewing Leonard Cohen in 1985, became an interviewer "purely to talk with more of my heroes," he says. First on his list was Scott Walker, when they finally did the interview a decade later, Walker thanked Jackson for a review he did of the Climate of Hunter album in 1984 and said it helped him redefine for himself how his music could best be described at that point. They did two in-depth interviews, unlike any ever given by Scott...

Tori Amos: Soul Searching and Uncensored contains an new Back Story, also My Spirit Walk With Tori Amos, a 3,5000 word fragment of memoir about how meeting Tori Amos changed the author's life and it includes the complete unexpurgated, sometimes to to 8,000 word texts of four of the most in-depth and provocative and personal interviews ever given by Tori Amos. Published together they also form a narrative of, among other things, one woman's recovery from rape, which is the central tale told...

Previously published as At the End of a Storm is a Golden Sky, (see reviews at the start of this edition) this book now has a new prologue and epilogue and cover. It includes 12 in-depth interviews with world-famous celebrities who have gone through dark, troubled times, in terms of drug abuse, alcohol abuse, the death of family members, loss of wor., despair and even thoughts of suicide. But who nonetheless, have endured and in some cases had epiphanies.It also includes a fragment ...

"A soaring account of the first flight across the Atlantic . . . Lindbergh's flight still astonishes . . . Suspenseful." — The Cleveland Plain DealerFor five weeks—from April 14 to May 21, 1927—the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping.Joe Jackson's Atlantic Fever is about this race...

Live Aid mastermind Bob Geldof once told his fellow Irishman and journalist Joe Jackson he would never update his 1986 autobiography 'Is That It'. Joe Jackson now suggests that "in ways the two interviews, each roughly 10,000 words long, and two thirds of which has never been previously published, from 1989 and 2001, that make up my book about Bob are, in ways an update of his autobiography. Certainly in the sense that they are psycho-sexual studies."Not that Geldof would necessari...

In 1985 I was just another Leonard Cohen fan. I had been since 1968 when I heard his glorious 'golden' voice for the first time seeing the equally hypnotic song, Sisters of Mercy. I had seen him in concert in 1970 two 1976 and 1979. As a professional photographer, I also photographed those concerts. However, in early 1985 as I listened to Various Positions, his latest album, and loved in particular, tracks such as Hallelujah and The Night Comes On - though the latter chilled me, and that i...

When Joe Jackson was nine years old, he read The Elvis Presley Story paperback. He told his mother, "one day I'm going to Memphis, to thank Mr Phillips for discovering Elvis." On his 10th birthday, Jackson was, he says, "practically reborn" when he discovered "real rock 'n' roll" thanks to a three-year-old Elvis hit called, I Need Your Love Tonight. Two years later, in 1964, he heard for the first time "classic early Elvis uncut such as Good Rockin Tonight" and thus began his lifetime pass...

In 1996 Joe Jackson, a journalist from The Irish Times, sat down with Eamon Dunphy, at his request , and interviewed the Irish ex-footballer, sports commentator, and author of books such as The Unforgettable Fire: The Story of U2, for 11 hours over a two-day period. It was one of the longest interviews Jackson ever conducted and is still regarded by Dunphy as "definitive." At the time it created a media furore in Ireland, particularly in terms of dump his attacks on Irish broadcasting lege...

This is the Story of the original Riverdance- the six-minute version and Riverdance the Show - as you probably never heard it before and probably will never read elsewhere. Simply because back in 1996 and 1997, long before confidentiality clauses were written into the contracts of those who are employed by the Riverdance production company, it's two lead dancers told the stories in an often angry and unvarnished fashion to Joe Jackson who was the music critic for the Irish Times and a cont...

The coach believes this Little League team has a chance to win a lot of baseball games. He also knows their season could end sooner than they want. Through it all, young, passionate, and courageous boys are taught valuable lessons in a magical season with their personal lives intersecting with this great game we call baseball. But, in this intersection of their lives with this game, will they be able to take home the biggest prize of all?"I could not put this book down"! --- Tommy C...