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October 17, 2005

Book Lists

Modern Library 100 Best Novels
ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound
College Board 101 Great Books
NYTimes Bestseller Lists
Times Book Review First Chapters
The Atlantic Magazine's Online Books
TIME Magazine Top 100 Novels of All Time
Writers in TIME Magazine
NYTimes 100 Notable Books of the Year

Best Sellers and Cultural Icons

Bestselling Books and Cultural Icons Scientific Inventions And Social Trends of the 20th Century An Internet Hotlist on American Decades Kingwood College: The Twentieth Century by Decades U.S. Library of Congress American Memory Collection Browse American Memory Collections by Time Period or Historical Era What Are Primary Sources? Primary Sources Analysis Guide Document Analysis Worksheets Other Internet Sources by Chronological Periods Duke University: Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections The Fifties The Sixties Project Rock and Roll Timeline CNN Video Almanac of the 80's & 90's Digital History More Primary Source Documents 100 Milestone Documents The Smithsonian Institute History Wired - This is Cool

October 16, 2005

Guitar - An American Life

Tim Brookes tells dual histories - the story of the guitar as an American instrument and the story of the construction of his own custom instrument at Running Dog Guitars.
I was half way through when I heard about Reservation Blues with its Robert Johnson connection, so now I'm back into it.