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Author : Fenton Bresler
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780749303570
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Murder of John Lennon written by Fenton Bresler and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fenton Bresler
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312923679
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Who Killed John Lennon? written by Fenton Bresler and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on six years of extensive research into the background and motives of assassin Mark Chapman and the circumstances of the murder, the author contends that Chapman was part of a political plot
Author : Alison Behnke
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0761388494
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Death of a Dreamer written by Alison Behnke and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York, December 8, 1980: The announcement shocked the world. Beatles founder and legendary musician John Lennon had been murdered in front of his New York home. With no warning, a lone gunman opened fire, shooting Lennon in the back just as Lennon returned from a recording session with his wife, Yoko Ono. Husband, father of two, cultural icon, and hero to millions, Lennon was dead. Around the globe, people mourned the loss of a man who had stood for peace, a man who had given so much joy to the world through his gift of music. No one had seen it coming...except one man—Mark David Chapman, Lennon's assassin. What drove this former Beatles fan to commit such a terrible act? Follow the lives of both Lennon and Chapman, learn about the political and cultural settings in which both grew up, and trace—step by excruciating step—the final moments of John Lennon's life.
Author : Jack Jones
Publisher : Villard
ISBN 13 : 0307779963
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Let Me Take You Down written by Jack Jones and published by Villard. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A top crime journalist reveals precisely how the world-shattering murder of John Lennon happened—and why In Let Me Take You Down, Jack Jones penetrates the borderline world of dangerous fantasy in which Mark David Chapman stalked and killed Lennon: Mark David Chapman rose early on the morning of December 8 to make final preparations. . . . Chapman had neatly arranged and left behind a curious assortment of personal items on top of the hotel dresser. In an orderly semicircle, he had laid out his passport, an eight-track tape of the music of Todd Rundgren, his little Bible, open to The Gospel According to John (Lennon). He left a letter from a former YMCA supervisor at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, where five years earlier, he had worked with refugees from the Vietnam War. Beside the letter were two photographs of himself surrounded by laughing Vietnamese children. At the center of the arrangement of personal effects, he had placed the small Wizard of Oz poster of Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion. “I woke up knowing, somehow, that when I left that room, that was the last time I would see the room again,” Chapman recalled. “I truly felt it in my bones. I don’t know how. I had never seen John Lennon up to that point. I only knew that he was in the Dakota. But I somehow knew that it was it, this was the day. So I laid out on the dresser at the hotel room . . . just a tableau of everything that was important in my life. So it would say, ‘Look, this is me. Probably, this is the real me. This is my past and I’m going, gone to another place.’ “I practiced what it was going to look like when police officers came into the room. It was like I was going through a door and I knew I was going to go through a door, the poet’s door, William Blake’s door, Jim Morrison’s door. . . . I was leaving what I was, going into a future of uncertainty.” Praise for Let Me Take You Down “Jack Jones has written a beautiful book, rare in its attention to the social context giving rise to stalkers and assassins of celebrities . . . celebrity worship is ambivalent—admiration shares the altar with envy. When the worshipped disappoints, a ‘nobody’ can become a ‘somebody’ by killing the pop culture idol. Let Me Take You Down is both fascinating and brilliant.”—Ladd Wheeler, Professor of Psychology, University of Rochester, Former President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Author : J. D. Salinger
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Catcher in the Rye written by J. D. Salinger and published by ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catcher in the Rye," written by J.D. Salinger and published in 1951, is a classic American novel that explores the themes of adolescence, alienation, and identity through the eyes of its protagonist, Holden Caulfield. The novel is set in the 1950s and follows Holden, a 16-year-old who has just been expelled from his prep school, Pencey Prep. Disillusioned with the world around him, Holden decides to leave Pencey early and spend a few days alone in New York City before returning home. Over the course of these days, Holden interacts with various people, including old friends, a former teacher, and strangers, all the while grappling with his feelings of loneliness and dissatisfaction. Holden is deeply troubled by the "phoniness" of the adult world and is haunted by the death of his younger brother, Allie, which has left a lasting impact on him. He fantasizes about being "the catcher in the rye," a guardian who saves children from losing their innocence by catching them before they fall off a cliff into adulthooda. The novel ends with Holden in a mental institution, where he is being treated for a nervous breakdown. He expresses some hope for the future, indicating a possible path to recovery..
Author : James Patterson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316429074
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The Last Days of John Lennon written by James Patterson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover one of the greatest true crime stories in music history, as only James Patterson can tell it. With the Beatles, John Lennon surpasses his youthful dreams, achieving a level of superstardom that defies classification. “We were the best bloody band there was,” he says. “There was nobody to touch us.” Nobody except the original nowhere man, Mark David Chapman. Chapman once worshipped his idols from afar—but now harbors grudges against those, like Lennon, whom he feels betrayed him. He’s convinced Lennon has misled fans with his message of hope and peace. And Chapman’s not staying away any longer. By the summer of 1980, Lennon is recording new music for the first time in years, energized and ready for it to be “(Just Like) Starting Over.” He can’t wait to show the world what he will do. Neither can Chapman, who quits his security job and boards a flight to New York, a handgun and bullets stowed in his luggage. The greatest true-crime story in music history, as only James Patterson can tell it. Enriched by exclusive interviews with Lennon’s friends and associates, including Paul McCartney, The Last Days of John Lennon is the thrilling true story of two men who changed history: One whose indelible songs enliven our world to this day—and the other who ended the beautiful music with five pulls of a trigger.
Author : Albert Goldman
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 9780553280579
Total Pages : 877 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (85 download)
Download or read book The Lives of John Lennon written by Albert Goldman and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1989 with total page 877 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles John Lennon from his childhood to his death, reveals the offstage Lennon and the violence that shaped his tortured life, discusses Lennon's hidden existence with Yoko, and assesses his impact as a cultural hero
Author : Lesley-Ann Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643136739
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Search for John Lennon written by Lesley-Ann Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulling back the many hidden layers of John Lennon’s life, Lesley-AnnJones closely tracks the events and personality traits that led to the rock star living in self-imposed exile in New York—where he was shot dead outside his apartment on that fateful autumn day forty years ago. Late on December 8th, 1980, the world abruptly stopped turning for millions, as news broke that the world's most beloved bard had been gunned down in cold blood in New York city. The most iconic Beatle left behind an unrivaled body of music and legions of faithful disciples—yet his profound legacy has brought with it as many questions and contradictions as his music has provided truths and certainties. In this compelling exploration, acclaimed music biographer Lesley-Ann Jones unravels the enigma that was John Lennon to present a complete portrait of the man, his life, his loves, his music, his untimely death and, ultimately, his legacy. Using fresh first-hand research, unseen material and exclusive interviews with the people who knew Lennon best, Jones' search for answers offers a spellbinding, 360-degree view of one of the world's most iconic music legends. The Search for John Lennon delves deep into psyche of the world's most storied musician—the good, the bad and the genius—forty years on from his tragic death.
Author : Keith Elliot Greenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0879309636
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (793 download)
Download or read book December 8, 1980 written by Keith Elliot Greenberg and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a riveting, minute-by-minute format, a best-selling author follows the events leading to the moment when Mark David Chapman killed rock icon John Lennon in New York City, in a book that also looks at the aftermath.
Author : Lesley-Ann Jones
Publisher : John Blake Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781789462975
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Who Killed John Lennon? written by Lesley-Ann Jones and published by John Blake Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Wiener
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520924543
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (245 download)
Download or read book Gimme Some Truth written by Jon Wiener and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-01-21 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported to the Nixon White House in 1972 about the Bureau's surveillance of John Lennon, he began by explaining that Lennon was a "former member of the Beatles singing group." When a copy of this letter arrived in response to Jon Wiener's 1981 Freedom of Information request, the entire text was withheld—along with almost 200 other pages—on the grounds that releasing it would endanger national security. This book tells the story of the author's remarkable fourteen-year court battle to win release of the Lennon files under the Freedom of Information Act in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court. With the publication of Gimme Some Truth, 100 key pages of the Lennon FBI file are available—complete and unexpurgated, fully annotated and presented in a "before and after" format. Lennon's file was compiled in 1972, when the war in Vietnam was at its peak, when Nixon was facing reelection, and when the "clever Beatle" was living in New York and joining up with the New Left and the anti-war movement. The Nixon administration's efforts to "neutralize" Lennon are the subject of Lennon's file. The documents are reproduced in facsimile so that readers can see all the classification stamps, marginal notes, blacked out passages and—in some cases—the initials of J. Edgar Hoover. The file includes lengthy reports by confidential informants detailing the daily lives of anti-war activists, memos to the White House, transcripts of TV shows on which Lennon appeared, and a proposal that Lennon be arrested by local police on drug charges. Fascinating, engrossing, at points hilarious and absurd, Gimme Some Truth documents an era when rock music seemed to have real political force and when youth culture challenged the status quo in Washington. It also delineates the ways the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations fought to preserve government secrecy, and highlights the legal strategies adopted by those who have challenged it.
Author : Alison Behnke
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0822590360
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Death of a Dreamer written by Alison Behnke and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life, accomplishments, and assassination of John Lennon and the troubled history of his assassin, Mark David Chapman.
Author : Robert Rosen
Publisher : Ed Rosenthal
ISBN 13 : 9780932551511
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Nowhere Man written by Robert Rosen and published by Ed Rosenthal. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate journey through John Lennon's final years. Including photos of Lennon and family.
Author : Kenneth Womack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781787601369
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book John Lennon, 1980 written by Kenneth Womack and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Lennon, 1980 had begun as a ceaseless shopping spree in which he and wife Yoko Ono fell into the doldrums of purchasing blue-chip real estate and indulging their every whim. But for John, that pivotal year would climax in several moments of creative triumph as he rediscovered his artistic self in dramatic fashion, only to be cut down by an assassin's bullets on Monday, December 8th, 1980, in the prime of a new life that was only just beginning to blossom.
Author : J. D. Salinger
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612195903
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)
Download or read book J. D. Salinger: The Last Interview written by J. D. Salinger and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment J. D. Salinger published The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, he was stalked by besotted fans, would-be biographers, and pushy journalists. In this collection of rare and revealing encounters with the elusive literary giant, Salinger discusses—sometimes willingly, sometimes grudgingly—what that onslaught was like, the autobiographical origins of his art, and his advice to writers. Including his final, surprising interview, and with an insightful introduction by New York Times journalist David Streitfeld, these enlightening, provocative, and even amusing conversations reveal a writer fiercely resistant to the spotlight but powerless to escape its glare.
Author : Fred Seaman
Publisher : Dell Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780440213437
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (134 download)
Download or read book The Last Days of John Lennon written by Fred Seaman and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the late Beatle's last days discusses Lennon's relationship with Yoko Ono, Yoko's heroin use and extramarital affairs, Lennon's virtual self-imprisonment in the Dakota, his battles with Yoko, and more. Reprint.
Author : Mike Derrico
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735476704
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Autumn and Everything After written by Mike Derrico and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fateful events of the consequential last months of 1980, how they changed music & politics, and set the tone for today's toxic climate. A story about rock and roll, murder, war, politics, the cultural divide and the current assault on democracy in America. Fall 1980...a growing distrust for government and a rejection of the counter cultural values of the 1960s bred the rise of a multi-layered conservative movement that results in Ronald Reagan winning the presidency. The coming decade would manage to alter and redefine the political landscape of America, having a direct impact on world events well into the next century. Fall 1980...former Beatle John Lennon returns to the music world after a five-year absence. With a successful new album, Double Fantasy, Lennon at the age of 40, is attempting to reconcile adulthood with his radical past. It is a celebrated comeback with high hopes for the future until he is murdered in early December. Fall 1980...31-year old rocker, Bruce Springsteen releases The River to the commercial success that will turn him from a critically-praised cult figure to a worldwide superstar. Unlike John Lennon, however, Springsteen stays out of politics and has never made his views known...until November 4, when he is so profoundly transformed by the election of Ronald Reagan, that it will serve as the dividing line pointing toward the artist he would become while informing his work for the rest of his career. The last months of 1980 were a political and artistic crossroads for three of the most influential people of modern times. In this critical exploration into a pivotal period of musical and political history, these three lives inadvertently intersect and intertwine during the last months of 1980 and beyond, in ways in which the influence is still felt today. In essence, it is where the 1960s really ends, and the 21st Century begins. Rock and roll's past, rock and roll's future and the future of America with the entire world at stake
