Yagoda, Ben

Will Rogers : a biography by Ben Yagoda( Book )

16 editions published between 1993 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,524 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Biography of American humorist and entertainer Will Rogers discussing his career and personal life

All in a lifetime : an autobiography by Ruth K Westheimer( Book )

18 editions published between 1987 and 2002 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,239 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

To the world, she is everyone's favorite sex therapist; a four-foot-seven-inch dynamo who answers our most intimate questions with disarming candor and heartening warmth. Yet few people know the real Dr. Ruth -- her loves, her losses, and the irrepressible spirit that has helped her through it all. Here, for the first time ever, Dr. Ruth opens her heart ... and the pages of her girlhood diaries to share her remarkable life story. Meet the child orphaned by the Holocaust, the Israeli soldier wounded on her twentieth birthday, and the citizen of the world who has called five countries home. A revealing autobiography of a fighter who has survived heartache with her spirit intact, All in a Lifetime offers a close and personal look at a courageous and very loving woman

When you catch an adjective, kill it : the parts of speech for better and/or worse by Ben Yagoda( Book )

5 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and held by 915 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Introduces the nine parts of speech in the English language, with guidelines on how to use adjectives, adverbs, articles, conjunctions, interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, and verbs appropriately

About town : the New Yorker and the world it made by Ben Yagoda( Book )

16 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 888 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"About Town tells fascinating story of how a tiny humor magazine, founded in the Jazz Age on champagne vapors, grew into a literary enterprise of epic proportion. Ben Yagoda is the first author to make extensive use of the New Yorker's archives, which were donated to the New York Public Library in 1991. Illuminated by interviews with more than fifty people, including the late Joseph Mitchell, William Steig, Roger Angell, Calvin Trillin, Pauline Kael, John Updike, and Ann Beattie, About Town penetrates the inner workings of the New Yorker as no other book has done."--Jacket

The B side : the death of Tin Pan Alley and the rebirth of the great American song by Ben Yagoda( Book )

9 editions published in 2015 in English and held by 872 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Everybody knows and loves the American Songbook. But it's a bit less widely understood that in about 1950, this stream of great songs more or less dried up. All of a sudden, what came over the radio wasn't Gershwin, Porter, and Berlin, but "Come on-a My House" and "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?" Elvis and rock and roll arrived a few years later, and at that point the game was truly up. What happened, and why? In The B Side, acclaimed cultural historian Ben Yagoda answers those questions in a fascinating piece of detective work. Drawing on previously untapped archival sources and on scores of interviews--the voices include Randy Newman, Jimmy Webb, Linda Ronstadt, and Herb Alpert--the book illuminates broad musical trends through a series of intertwined stories. Among them are the battle between ASCAP and Broadcast Music, Inc.; the revolution in jazz after World War II; the impact of radio and then television; and the bitter, decades-long feud between Mitch Miller and Frank Sinatra. The B Side is about taste, and the particular economics and culture of songwriting, and the potential of popular art for greatness and beauty. It's destined to become a classic of American musical history" --

The value of family : a blueprint for the 21st century by Ruth K Westheimer( Book )

12 editions published between 1996 and 1998 in English and held by 859 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This books shows both how the family evolved to where it is today and how it can and will survive."--Jacket

Memoir : a history by Ben Yagoda( Book )

7 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 704 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An analysis of the memoir as a literary art form considers stories written by some of the world's most famous contributors while examining the controversial nature of the fraudulent memoir and its role in shaping collective memories

The sound on the page : style and voice in writing by Ben Yagoda( Book )

9 editions published between 2004 and 2008 in English and held by 700 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Draws on interviews with forty leading contemporary authors to discuss the importance of individual style on literature, citing the distinguishing practices of today's top writers while making recommendations to serious readers and aspiring writers

How to not write bad : the most common writing problems and the best ways to avoid them by Ben Yagoda( Book )

11 editions published in 2013 in English and held by 682 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Offers a guide for crafting sentences and paragraphs that are both effective and interesting and that combine clarity with correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar

The art of fact : a historical anthology of literary journalism by Kevin Kerrane( Book )

12 editions published between 1997 and 1998 in English and held by 559 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Art of Fact is a historical treasury tracing what used to be called "new" journalism back to such pioneers as Defoe, Dickens, and Orwell, and to crime writers, investigative social reporters, and war correspondents who stretched the limits of style and even propriety to communicate powerful truth. The tradition is alive and well in stories that take us from a cantina in Los Angeles to a lesbian bar in Dublin, from a massacre in Tiananmen Square to a nonviolent revolution in the Philippines. This international emphasis links American literary journalists to their counterparts in England, Africa, and Russia