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In Association With Amazon.com and Half.com Welcome to the Rootin' Bookstore, brought to you by Kevrave Productions in association with Amazon.com. In addition, my personal stash of books and CDs is now on-sale at rock-bottom prices at Half.com. Here's a link to my seller's page on Half.com (seller name = kevrave), if you want to take a gander at the books and CDs I'm seeking to free from my clutches at long last. Regardless of which site you visit, each provides you with a secure, fast, easy way to soak up all the books and sounds which have warped my mind without ever having to leave the house. By pulling together these selections from the Rootin' Around home office library, I hope to expose you to the sort of subversive thinking that propels one to hunker down with some old Uncle Dave Macon records and snap one's suspenders really loudly. All of the usual Rootin' subjects are here, for your perusal, including: Roots Music Readin' Materials Rootin' Roadtripping and Other Dynamic Detours Great Plains, Kansas, Prairies and The American West Midwestern Musings and Meanderings Boundless New York General History and Americana The Federal Writers Project and WPA Books About Baseball Amazon's Hot 100 and Music Essentials Lists (Books and CDs) Hot 100 Books Hot 100 CDs Music Essentials Of course (if you can't find anything that interests here at our humble little shop of literary curiousities) you're also welcome to search the complete Amazon.com inventory, through the handy-dandy little search box on the left of this page. Note: Using the Amazon.com search box and clicking on any of the individual book links below will launch a new browser window. If you already have more than one browser window open, the results of your search or link click will appear in one of the other browser windows already opened on your desktop. 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Roots Music Readin' Materials  Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carbuetor Dung Nik Cohn, Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock Ace Collins, The Stories Behind Country Music's All-Time Greatest Songs Alton Delmore, The Delmore Brothers: Truth Is Stranger Than Publicity Nicholas Dawidoff, In the Country of Country Frederic Dannen, Hit Men: Power Brokers & Fast Money Inside the Music Business Colin Escott Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll Hank Williams: The Biography Peter Guralnick: Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock 'n' Roll Lost Highway: Journeys & Arrivals of American Musicians Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom Paul Kingsbury, The Encyclopedia of Country Music: The Ultimate Guide to the Music Joe Klein, Woody Guthrie: A Life Karen Linn, That Half-Barbaric Twang: The Banjo in American Popular Culture Jim Longhi, Woody, Cisco & Me: Seamen Three in the Merchant Marine Steven Loza, Barrio Rhythm Bill C. Malone, Country Music U.S.A. Greil Marcus, Mystery Train David C. Morton and Charles K. Wolfe, Deford Bailey : A Black Star in Early Country Music Patricia Romanowski, Jon Pareles and Holly George-Warren (Editors), The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll Paul Oliver, The Story of the Blues Robert Palmer, Deep Blues Nolan Porterfield, Jimmie Rodgers : The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler Neil Rosenberg, Bluegrass: A History Ross Russell, Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest Mike Seeger and John Cohen, Old-Time String Band Songbook Nick Tosches, Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock 'n' Roll Chalres Wolfe and Mark O'Connor (Editors), The Devil's Box: Masters of Southern Fiddling Back to Top Rootin' Roadtripping and Other Dynamic Detours  Bruce Adams and Margaret Engel, Ballpark Vacations: Great Family Trips to Minor League and Classic Major League Baseball Parks Across America Will Anderson, Where Have You Gone, Starlight Cafe?: America's Golden Era Roadside Restaurants Lynne Arany and Archie Hobson, Little Museums: Over 1,000 Small (And Not-So-Small) American Showplaces Warren James Belasco, Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945 K.T. Berger, Zen Driving Douglas Brinkley, Majic Bus: An American Odyssey Kurt Brown (Editor), Drive, They Said: Poems About Americans and Their Cars Bruce Brumberg and Karen Axelrod, Watch It Made In the USA: A Visitor's Guide to the Companies That Make Your Favorite Products Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America Andrei Codrescu, Road Scholar: Coast to Coast Late in the Century Graham Coster, A Thousand Miles From Nowhere: Trucking Two Continents Dayton Duncan, Out West: American Journey Along the Lewis and Clark Trail Lars Eighner, Travels With Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets Richard and Katherine Endacott, Second Helpings: A Guide to Dining in the Cornhusker State Julie Fanselow Traveling the Lewis & Clark Trail Traveling the Oregon Trail Drake Hokanson, The Lincoln Highway: Main Street Across America Lesley Hazleton, Driving to Detroit: An Automotive Odyssey Raymond C. Houghton Jr., A Revolutionary Day. An informative series of Revolutionary War history guidebooks, with recommended travel routes that follow some of the Northeast's more scenic, pre-interstate highways and canals. A Revolutionary War Road Trip on US Route 9 A Revolutionary War Road Trip on US Route 4 A Revolutionary War Road Trip on US Route 7 A Revolutionary War Road Trip on US Route 20 A Revolutionary War Road Trip on US Route 9w A Revolutionary War Road Trip on US Route 202 A Revolutionary War Canal Cruise on the Champlain Canal Jamie Jensen, Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways Jamie Jensen, The DK Eyewitness Guide to the USA Jack Kerouac, On the Road Roger M. Knutson, Flattened Fauna: A Field Guide to Common Animals of Roads, Street and Highways Michael Lane and Jim Crotty, Mad Monks on the Road: A 47,000-Hour Dashboard Adventure From Paradise, California, to Royal, Arkansas, and Up the New Jersey Turnpike William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Jim Lilliefors, Highway 50: Ain't That America Jean Lindamood (Editor), Road Trips, Head Trips and Other Car-Crazed Writings John Margolies, Pump and Circumstance: Glory Days of the Gas Station Bob Moore and Patrick Grauwels (photos by Yannis Argyropoulos), Route 66: An Illustrated Guidebook to the Mother Road Michael McCoy, The Wild West: A Traveler's Guide National Geographic Society, National Geographic's Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways National Geographic Society, National Geographic Guide to America's Historic Places Tim O'Brien, The Amusement Park Guide: Fun for the Whole Family at More Than 250 Amusement Parks from Coast to Coast Frederick Law Olmsted, The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, 700 Great Rail-Trails: A National Directory Karl Raitz (Editor), The National Road Jack Rittenhouse, A Guidebook to Highway 66 Marc Simmons, Following the Santa Fe Trail: A Guide for Modern Travelers Tom Snyder, The Route 66 Traveler's Guide and Roadside Companion John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America Jane and Michael Stern, Eat Your Way Across the USA : 500 Diners, Lobster Shacks, Buffets, Pie Palaces, and Other All-American Eateries Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Various Authors, The Next Exit: USA Interstate Highway Guide Vegetarian Resource Group, Vegetarian Journal's Guide to Natural Foods Restaurants in the U.S. and Canada Michael Wallis, Route 66: The Mother Road Mike Wilkins, Ken Smith and Doug Kirby, The New Roadside America: The Modern Traveler's Guide to the Wild and Wonderful World of America's Tourist Attractions Mark Winegardner, Elvis Presley Boulevard: From Sea to Shining Sea, Almost Douglas A. Yorke, Jr.,John Margolies, and Eric Baker, Hitting the Road: The Art of the American Road Map Back to Top Great Plains, Kansas, Prairies and The American West   Stephen E. Ambrose Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors Dee Brown, Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: Railroads in the West David Dary, Red Blood & Black Ink: Journalism in the Old West James R. Dickenson, Home on the Range: A Century on the High Plains Terry Evans (with essay by Donald Worster), The Inhabited Prairie Daniel Fitzgerald, (with foreward by Joseph W. Snell), Ghost Towns of Kansas: A Traveler's Guide Ian Frazier, Great Plains Stan Herd, Crop Art and Other Earthworks Patricia Junker, John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West Joni. L. Kinsey, Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie Andy Knapp, Mountain Biking the Great Plains States: Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota Doug Ladd (with photos by Frank Oberle), Tallgrass Prairie Wildflowers: A Falcon Field Guide William Least Heat Moon, Prairyerth (A Deep Map): An Epic History of the Tallgrass Prairie Country Gerald McFarland, A Scattered People: An American Family Moves West Clyde A. Milner, Carol A. O'Connor and Martha A. Sandweiss (Editors), The Oxford History of the American West Stephen B. Oates, To Purge This Land With Blood: A Biography of John Brown Lesley Poling-Kempes, The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West Jonathan Raban, Bad Land: An American Romance John W. Reps, Bird's Eye Views: Historic Lithographs of North American Cities James R. Shortridge, Kaw Valley Landscapes: A Traveler's Guide to Northeastern Kansas Wallace Stegner, When the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West Suzanne Winckler, The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: The Plains States Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s Back to Top Midwestern Musings and Meanderings   Thomas Hart Benton, An Artist in America Hazel E. Brown, Grant Wood and Marvin Cone: Artists of an Era William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West James Dennis, Renegade Regionalists : Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry As Independent Modernists Ian Frazier, Family Howard E. Good (illustrations by Brenda Olson Sutherland), Black Swamp Farm Donald Jackson (Editor), Black Hawk: An Autobiography Garrison Keillor, WLT: A Radio Romance Tom Lewis, Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life Jane Mobley and Nancy Whitnell Harris, A City Within a Park: One Hundred Years of Parks and Boulevards in Kansas City, Missouri Michael Edward Shapiro, George Caleb Bingham Beth Shervey, The Little Theatre on the Square : Four Decades of a Small-Town Equity Theatre David S. and Susan Siegel The Used Book Lover's Guide to the Central States The Used Book Lover's Guide to the Midwest James R. Shortridge, Middle West: Its Meaning in American Culture Lisa Stone and Jim Zanzi, Sacred Spaces and Other Places: A Guide to Grottos and Sculptural Environments in the Upper Midwest Calvin Trillin, Messages From My Father Mark Vinz and Thom Tammaro (Editors), Inheriting the Land: Contemporary Voices From the Midwest Suzanne Winckler, The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: The Great Lakes States Suzanne Winckler, The Smithsonian Guides to Natural America: The Heartland: llinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri Grant Wood (Editor), Grant Wood: An American Master Revealed Back to Top Boundless New York   Nat Brandt, The Man Who Tried to Burn New York Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Edward Robb Ellis, The Epic of New York City Stanley Greenberg and Thomas H. Garver, Invisible New York : The Hidden Infrastructure of the City David Halberstam, Summer of '49 Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale Clifton Hood, 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York David Isay and Harvey Wang, Holding On: Dreamers, Visionaries, Eccentrics and Other American Heroes Oscar Israelowitz, Lower East Side Tourbook John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century Jeff Kiselloff, You Must Remember This: An Oral History of Manhattan From the 1890s to World War II A.J. Liebling, Back Where I Came From Joseph Mitchell, Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories William L. Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics Luc Sante, Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York Matt Sexton and Alice Leccese Powers (Editors), The Brooklyn Reader: 30 Writers Celebrate America's Favorite Borough Time Out, New York Guide Harvey Wang, Harvey Wang's New York E.B. White, Essays of E.B. White (Includes "Here Is New York") Elliot Willensky, When Brooklyn Was the World: 1920-1957 Back to Top General History and Americana   James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families Edward L. Ayers The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War John Beardsley, Gardens of Revelation: Environments by Visionary Artists Otto L. Bettman, The Good Old Days -- They Were Terrible! Robert Bishop and Jacqueline M. Atkins, Folk Art in American Life B.A. Botkin, The American People : Stories, Legends, Tales, Traditions and Songs Kevin Brownlow, The Parade's Gone By Bill Bryson The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States Dan Carter, Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South Margaret C.S. Christman, 1846: Portrait of the Nation George H. Drury and David Page Morgan (Editors), Confessions of a Train-Watcher: Four Decades of Railroad Writing Richard V. Francaviglia, Main Street Revisited: Time, Space and Image Building in Small-Town America Blake Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth Lee Hall, Olmsted's America: An "Unpractical" Man and His Vision of Civilization Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States Jan Jennings, Roadside America: The Automobile in Design and Culture Jonathan Kandell, La Capital: The Biography of Mexico City Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back Verlyn Klinkenborg, Making Hay Philip Langdon, Orange Roofs, Golden Arches: The Architecture of American Chain Restaurants Chester H. Liebs, Main Street to Miracle Mile: American Roadside Architecture James Lileks, The Gallery of Regrettable Food Stan Luxemburg, Roadside Empires: How the Chains Franchised America Virginia and Lee McAlester, A Field Guide to American Houses: The Guide That Enables You to Identify, and Place in Their Historic and Architectural Contexts, the Houses You See in Your Neighborhood or in Your Travels Across America -- Houses Built for American Families (Rich, Poor and In-Between), In City and Countryside, From the 17th Century to the Present James Michener, The Source National Geographic Society, Historical Atlas of the United States Witold Rybczynski, Waiting for the Weekend Desi Scarpone, Board Games With Price Guide Timothy B. Spears, 100 Years on the Road: The Travelling Salesman in American Culture Jeffrey Tennyson, Hamburger Heaven: The Illustrated History of the Hamburger Bernice L. Thomas, America's 5 & 10 Cent Stores: The Kress Legacy Frederick Turner, Spirit of Place: The Making of an American Literary Landscape Alec Wilkinson, Moonshine: A Life in Pursuit of White Liquor Will Wright, Sixguns & Society: A Structural Study of the Western Back to Top The Federal Writers Project and the WPA   Bruce I. Bustard, A New Deal for the Arts David S. Cohen (Editor), America, The Dream of My Life: Selections From the Federal Writers' Project's New Jersey Ethnic Survey Walker Evans, Walker Evans : Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938 Carl Fleishauer and Beverly W. Brannan (Editors), Documenting America 1935-1943 Jerre Mangione, The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writer's Project, 1935-1943 Petra Schindler-Carter, Vintage Snapshots: The Fabrication of a Nation in the W.P.A. American Guide Series Paul Sporn, Against Itself: The Federal Theater and Writers' Projects in the Midwest Back to Top Books About Baseball   Charles C. Alexander, John McGraw David Catanio, Hornsby Hit One Over My Head: A Fans' Oral History of Baseball Nicholas Dawidoff, The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg Pat Jordan, False Spring W.P. Kinsella, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy David Lamb, Stolen Season: A Journey Through America and Baseball's Minor Leagues Michael Shaara, For Love of the Game Neil J. Sullivan, The Minors: The Struggles and the Triumph of Baseball's Poor Relation From 1876 to the Present Bill Veeck, Veeck as in Wreck Sol White, Sol White's History of Colored Base Ball: With Other Documents on the Early Black Game, 1886-1936 Back to Top * * * Retro Rootin' Rootin' Reviews Rootin' Roadtrips Rootin' Bookstore Roots of Rootin' Roto' Rootin' Rootin' Links Rootin' Bookstore Contact Rootin' Radio Home © 2001, Kevrave Productions