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Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin (born 1958)

television actor, film actor, character actor, stage actor, voice actor, actor, film director, film producer, comedian

  • George Washington University, New York University Tisch School of the Arts
A promise to ourselves
Nevertheless
Promise to Ourselves
A promise to ourselves
Nevertheless
Promise to Ourselves
Nevertheless
You can't spell America without me
The Shadow
You Can't Spell America Without Me
Blue Jasmine
Crazy Streets
Seduced and abandoned
You can't spell America without me
You can't spell America without me
John Hodgman
John Hodgman (born 1971)

comedian, television actor, film actor, presenter, podcaster

  • Yale University, Grace Hopper College
Vacationland
Medallion Status
More information than you require ...
That is all
Weddings of the Times : a parody
The Areas of My Expertise
Funny on Purpose
Normal
Nicholas Meyer
Nicholas Meyer (born 1945)

film director, film producer, director, actor

  • University of Iowa, Ethical Culture Fieldston School
The view from the bridge
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The Canary Trainer
The West End Horror
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The West End Horror
The seven-per-cent solution
Confessions of a homing pigeon
Black orchid
Confessions of a homing pigeon
Black orchid
The 7 Per Cent Solution  (The Seven Percent Solution)
The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols
Black orchid
Target practice
Target practice
Bai fen zhi qi de rong ye
Star Trek VI Undiscovered Country Script
Target practice
Sherlock Holmes et le fantôme de l'Opéra
The seven-per-cent solution
The seven-per-cent solution
L'Horreur du West End
La solution à sept pour cent
Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel (1912-2008)

journalist, historian, radio personality, poet lawyer, music journalist, actor

  • University of Chicago Law School
Hard times
"The Good War"
Talking to Myself
My American century
And They All Sang
Touch and Go
American dreams, lost and found
The spectator
The Studs Terkel Reader
Giants of jazz ; sketches by Robert Galster
Good War an Oral History of World War 2
P.S
Working
Race
The Great Divide
Coming of Age
Division Street: America
Sez who? sez me
Hope Dies Last
Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith
Voices of Our Time
The Studs Terkel Interviews
Chicago
Studs Terkels Chicago
Four Decades with Studs Terkel
P.S.
Studs Terkel
Young Bob
Envelopes of sound
Will the circle be unbroken?
Good War-V1
American dreams
The final interview
the good war
Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy
La "Bonne Guerre"
Amerikan dorīmu
Working in America
And they all sang
Carlos Mayolo
Carlos Mayolo (1945-2007)

actor, film director

  • University of Santiago de Cali
La vida de mi cine y mi televisión
Mamá que hago?
Gad Granach
Gad Granach (1915-2011)

comedian, actor

Heimat los! Aus dem Leben eines jüdischen Emigranten
Keith Richards
Keith Richards (born 1943)

record producer, guitarist, composer, autobiographer, actor, recording artist

  • Wentworth Primary School, Wilmington Grammar School for Boys
Life
Life
Life
Life
Life
Gus & me
Keith Richards
Life
Život
What would Keith Richards do?
The Electric Guitar
Stone me
Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem (born 1934)

journalist, reporter, activist, essayist, editor, lecturer, women's rights activist, actor, human rights activist, political activist

  • Smith College
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Marilyn
Marilyn, Norma Jeane
My life on the road
Moving beyond words
Moving beyond words
The Women's Suffrage Movement
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Enslaved
The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!
My life on the road
The essential Gloria Steinem reader
Maririn
Revolution from within
Choice Words
Feminist Family Values
Doing Sixty and Seventy
Free to Be You and Me
Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles
Wonder Woman
Women Respond to the Men's Movement
Revolution from Within
Revolution from within
Brass Notebook
Gloria Steinem on Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Une révolution intérieure
Içimizdeki devrim
Ir Mas Alla De Las Palabras
The Women’s Suffrage Movement
On Self Esteem and Scholars, Witches And Other Freedom Fighters
Gloria Steinem
Autostima
Herstory - Women Who Changed the World
The beach book
Uncommon Knowledge (Esprit Presents)
50 Years of Ms
Wonder woman
Spirit of Houston the First National Women's Conference
Letters to Ms.
The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off
Doing Sixty and Seventy
MI VIDA EN LA CARRETERA
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (Korean Language Edition)
Beach Book
Moving Beyond Words : Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles
Arab Spring Dreams
My Forbesganj Garden