Book of Donmon Teith

Biography of a soprano, Alice Nielsen, star of Broadway musicals and operas, and director of an opera company, who was raised in Kansas City.

In this fascinating study, Lewis L. Gould has brought a shadowy first lady into the light and restored her to a rightful place as a patron of music. Helen Herro

When John Wilkes Booth died—shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln—all he had in his pocket were a c