He penned songs such as Witchcraft and The Best Is Yet to Come (signature tunes for Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, respectively) and wrote such musicals as Sweet Charity, I Love My Wife, On the Twentieth Century, and The Will Rogers Follies yet his life has gone entirely unexplored until now. You Fascinate Me So takes readers into the world and work of Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winning composer/performer Cy Coleman, exploring his days as a child...

"Since his arrival at The Daily Show in 1999, Jon Stewart has become one of the major players in comedy as well as one of the most significant liberal voices in the media and on television today. In Angry Optimist, Lisa Rogak charts his unlikely rise to political stardom, from his early stand-up days to the short-lived but acclaimed Jon Stewart Show. Drawing on interviews with current and former colleagues, she reveals how things work behind the scenes...

This is a story about John Wayne, Gene Autry, Gary Cooper andTommy Lee Jones... well, not really. It is a story about the cowboy hero these mere actors attempt to portray on the silver screen, as in 'I'm not a cowboy hero but I play one on tv.' It is a biography of one whose story will seem larger than life. Remember the name Warner Glenn. Ed Ashurst leaves no stone unturned. This history book is a slice of the pioneer west for hte last two centuries....

An oral biography chronicling the life of singer-songwriter Warren Zevon brings together conversations and interviews with Jackson Browne, Tom Petty, Emmylou Harris, and other friends and colleagues from California's rock scene. When Warren Zevon died in 2003, he left behind both a fanatical cult following and a rich catalog of dark, witty rock-n-roll classics that includes "Lawyers, Guns, and Money," "Excitable Boy," and the immortal "Werewolves...

"Franklin "Rooster" Cogburn was born in 1866 in Fancy Hill, Arkansas, the descendant of pioneers and moonshiners. Six foot three, dark eyed, and a dead shot with a rifle, he was as hard as the rocky mountain ground his family settled. Though he never packed a badge, Rooster meted out his own brand of justice, taking on a posse of U.S. deputy marshals in a blazing showdown of gunfire and blood. A wanted man with a $500 reward on his head, Rooster would...