“Lee Grant has lived her life and practiced her craft with reckless abandon, bravery, honesty, and ultimately brutal clarity.”—Tony Award-winner Frank Langella Already a celebrated Broadway star and Vogue “It Girl,” Lee Grant was just twenty-four when she was nominated for an Academy Award for Detective Story. A year later, her name landed on the Hollywood blacklist, destroying her career and her marriage. Grant spent twelve years fighting the Communist witch hunts and rebuilt her life on her own terms: first stop, a starring role on Peyton Place. Set amid the 1950s New York theater scene and the starstudded parties of 1970s Malibu, I Said Yes to Everything will delight film and theatre buffs as well as the beloved star’s myriad fans.

I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Grant, Lee

Arts & Literature

Plume

Born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in New York City, actress Lee Grant spent her youth accumulating more experiences than most people have in a lifetime: from student at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse to member of the legendary Actors Studio; from celebrated Broadway star to Vogue “It Girl.” At age twenty-four, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Detective Story, and a year later found herself married and a mother for the first time, her career on the rise. And then she lost it all. Her name landed on the Hollywood blacklist, her offers for film and television roles ground to a halt, and her marriage fell apart. Finding reserves of strength she didn’t know she had, Grant took action against anti-Communist witch hunts in the arts. She threw herself into work, accepting every theater or teaching job that came her way. She met a man ten years her junior and began a wild, liberating fling that she never expected would last a lifetime. And after twelve years of fighting the blacklist, she was finally exonerated. With courage and style, Grant rebuilt her life on her own terms: first stop, a starring role on Peyton Place, and then leads in Valley of the Dolls, In the Heat of the Night, and Shampoo, for which she won her first Oscar. Set amid the New York theater scene of the fifties and the star-studded parties of Malibu in the seventies, I Said Yes to Everything evokes a world of political passion and movie-star glamour. Grant tells endlessly delightful tales of costars and friends such as Warren Beatty, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, and Sidney Poitier, and writes with the verve and candor befitting such a seductive and beloved star.

Blue Rider Press

Someone once said, “If you start forgetting how things began, you stop beginning things.” With undaunting energy and perseverance, Mike Lassiter spent six years traveling across the state of North Carolina, looking for the lifeblood of small towns, community icons and historic businesses―the beginnings of Tar Heel commerce, livelihoods, family enterprises. At first it was old storefronts and signage that captured his imagination; soon he became enamored with the people inside the buildings and their stories. 
In the old days, before big box retailers and interstates, folks relied on mainstays within their communities. Pretty much whatever anyone needed they purchased at the general store. (As they say at Mast Store, the granddaddy of all N.C.’s general stores, “If you can’t buy it here, you don’t need it.”) Back then, folks gathered their news while sitting around a pot-bellied stove at the hardware store, or in a chair at the barber shop. The local druggists whipped up cures for whatever ailed their customers (or their customers’ livestock); likewise they created some of the tastiest confections known to youngsters, ice cream sodas and orangeades. For entertainment, nothing beat the picture show or a meal out. Today, some of these institutions still survive―a few thriving, others mere skeletons of their former selves. Often, just a faded signpost or abandoned marquee is all that’s left and must suffice to conjure a memory of how life used to be. 
This book explores not only beginnings, but continuations, and sadly a few endings, too. It showcases second-, third- and, in a few rare cases, fifth-generation businesses. Nine chapters, each devoted to one business genre―from general stores to barber shops to theatres― include an informative and entertaining essay and numerous photographs. A county-by-county index follows, making Our Vanishing Americana a testament to North Carolina’s unsung heroes and an indispensable guide to the state’s treasures.

Our Vanishing Americana: A North Carolina Portrait

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Lorimer Press

Backstairs At The White House

DOWNING, DAVID

KENNEDY, GEORGE

Morgan, Harry

Barrie, Barbara

Buono, Victor

Gates, Larry

Vaughn, Robert

Harris, Julie

Roat, Richard

Leachman, Cloris

Nielsen, Leslie

Bloom, Claire

Parks, Lillian Rogers

Anderson,John

HUNTER, KIM

OVERTON, Bill

Sterling, Jan

Bagni, Gwen

Shalet, Diane

COLE, OLIVIA

Uggams, Leslie

White House (washington, D.c.)

Acorn Media (firm)

Friendly, Ed

O'herlihy, Michael

Dubov, Paul.

Morrison, Robert L.

Stevens, Morty

Gossett, Louis

Hooks, Robert

Rhodes, Hari.

Carroll, Helena

Winfield, Paul.

Holm, Celeste

Flanders, Ed

Heckart, Eileen

Parsons, Estelle

Duggan, Andrew

Watson, James A.

Sullivan, Barry

Latham, Louise

Ed Friendly Productions

Distributed By Acorn Media

Biography of the bluegrass book, The Dillards who gained fame as the Darlin' family on The Andy Griffith Show. Known as the fathers of country rock this book also contains the lyrics to their hits as well as the never before heard lyrics to the Songs that Made Charlene (Darlin) Cry.

Everybody on the Truck!: The Story of the Dillards (The Life and Times of the Dillards)

Pyle, Denver

Eggman Pub

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