Bücher von Stephen Miller

A brilliant and ambitious college professor, Dr. Reginald Thorne finds himself faced with a decision that has shaken his career, his family, and his religious beliefs. As his personal life unravels, he realizes that he must be true to what his heart has revealed to him.

In the first entirely new major biography of Dolly Parton for over 15 years, Stephen Miller goes behind the larger-than-life image to find out what makes Dolly Parton tick.A self-made woman in every sense, Dolly arrived on the Nashville scene as a solo performer bedecked with lurid outfits and exaggerated accessories designed to get her noticed. Later she would bring the same approach to rebuilding her face and figure, but behind the showbiz excesses were always the exquisite voice and an exceptional songwriting talent. Talking to Dolly's family members, musicians and producers Miller gets to the core of a remarkable woman from a poor East Tennessee background who made it in the male-dominated world of 1960s Nashville and went on to build a respectable movie career as well.The author explores Dolly's private life, especially her closely-guarded relationships with her husband of nearly forty years, Carl Dean, and her lifelong friend Judy Ogle. What emerges is a unique portrait of a strong woman who came to town looking like a burlesque hooker but who took control of her life, her music and her career with resolute determination.

Rollercoaster: A Life in Twenty-Nine Jobs is a memoir about the author's widely varied jobs, from journalist, professor, and government official, to night watchman, driver for a printing company, and househusband. The memoir also includes portraits of several prominent people he came to know during the twenty years he worked in Washington, including Irving Kristol, Sidney Hook, James Buckley, Walter Laqueur, and Jan Nowak.

According to Alexis de Tocqueville's influential work on the Old Regime and the French Revolution, royal centralisation had so weakened the feudal power of the nobles that their remaining privileges became glaringly intolerable to commoners. This book challenges the theory by showing that when Louis XVI convened assemblies of landowners in the late 1770s and 1780s to discuss policies needed to resolve the budgetary crisis, he faced widespread opposition from lords and office holders. These elites regarded the assemblies as a challenge to their hereditary power over commoners. The king's government comprised seigneurial jurisdictions and venal offices. Lordships and offices upheld inequality on behalf of the nobility and bred the discontent motivating the people to make the French Revolution.

This text provides a compelling narrative world history through the lens of food and farmers. Tracing the history of agriculture from earliest times to the present, Isett and Miller argue that people rather than markets have been the primary agents of agricultural change, exploring the actions taken by individuals and groups over time.

Building a Healthy Marriage Ministry is a manual for Pastors and Churches who want to build a vibrant marriage ministry in the local church. Complete with Outlines and graphic ideas, this resource is a practical how-to manual to build your very own marriage ministry.

Walking New York is an idiosyncratic guide to New York-a study of twelve American writers who walked in New York and wrote about their impressions of the city in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

In this revised edition of his definitive biography of Dolly Parton, Stephen Miller has updated his original book on the superstar.

Million Dollar Quartet' is the name given to recordings made on Tuesday December 4, 1956 in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The recordings were of an impromptu jam session among Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash.

From his legendary 50s Sun recordings to his classic 'American' albums of the late 90s, Johnny Cash has always been the country voice of rock.