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Books by Peter Benjaminson
  | | Mary Wells(Reprint) The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar by Peter Benjaminson Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2016 by Chicago Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61373-486-5, ISBN: 1-61373-486-7 "Years before Diana Ross, Mary Wells was the first Motown solo superstar, the internationally popular songstress who sang the megahit “My Guy.” Her songs consistently and repeatedly reached huge audiences in America and England, both black and white. She captivated the Beatles, toured with them, and was briefly more popular than they were on the pop charts. But Wells left Motown at age 21 and spent the rest of her life trying to fight he ..." |
 | | Super Freak The Life of Rick James by Contributor Peter Benjaminson Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2017 by Chicago Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61374-957-9, ISBN: 1-61374-957-0 "Few American superstar stories are richer, wilder, or more excessive than Rick James’s. He played in a band with Neil Young, spent years in jail, produced his first album (which was then picked up by Motown) with money from shadowy sources, crossed rock and funk to come up with one of the best-selling albums of the 1980s, became one of the biggest pop star of the era, turned a young white woman named Teena Marie into an R&B superstar, d ..." |
 | | The Lost Supreme(1st Edition) The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard by Peter Benjaminson Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2009 by Chicago Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55652-959-7, ISBN: 1-55652-959-7 "In the months before she died, Florence Ballard, the spunky teenager who founded the most successful female vocal group in historythe Supremestold her own side of the story. Recorded on tape, Flo shed light on all areas of her life, including the surprising identity of the man by whom she was raped prior to her entering the music business, the details of her love-hate relationship with Motown Records czar Berry Gordy, her drinking pro ..." |
 | | Crazy Man, Crazy The Bill Haley Story by Jr. Haley Bill, Peter Benjaminson Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2019 by Backbeat ISBN-13: 978-1-61713-711-2, ISBN: 1-61713-711-1 "Bill Haley – the man who brought rock 'n' roll into the mainstream. His song “Crazy Man, Crazy” was the first rock 'n' roll song to break the Billboard Top 20 in 1953 and was followed by his evergreen “We're Gonna Rock Around the Clock ” the first song of its kind to hit #1. His success made him an idol not only in the US but throughout the world, from Canada to the UK, Europe, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and beyond. Yet Haley is oft ..." |
 | | Mary Wells(1st Edition) The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar by Peter Benjaminson Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2012 by Chicago Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56976-248-6, ISBN: 1-56976-248-1 "Complete with never-before-revealed details about the sex, violence, and drugs in her life, this biography reveals the incredibly turbulent life of Motown artist Mary Wells. Based in part on four hours of previously unreleased and unpublicized deathbed interviews with Wells, this account delves deeply into her rapid rise and long fall as a recording artist, her spectacular romantic and family life, the violent incidents in which she was ..." |
 | | The Lost Supreme(1st Edition) The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard by Peter Benjaminson Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2008 by Chicago Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55652-705-0, ISBN: 1-55652-705-5 "The Supremes were the most successful female vocal group in history. Of the three original members--Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, and Florence Ballard—two told their life stories in bestselling books. Only Florence Ballard, the spunky teenager who founded the group, remained silent. But, in the months before her 1976 death, Flo actually did tell her own side of the Supremes story—and the story of her entire life—to Peter Benjaminson, who rec ..." |
 | | Publish Without Perishing a Practical Handbook for Academic Authors (Reference and Resource Series). by Peter Benjaminson Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1992 by Natl Education Assn ISBN-13: 978-0-8106-1544-1, ISBN: 0-8106-1544-4 |
 | | Investigative Reporting by David C. Anderson, Peter Benjaminson Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1976 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-20196-6, ISBN: 0-253-20196-9 "David Anderson, Peter Benjaminson. Kercheval Co. stock were ever issued — 5,000 to Hacquebart himself and 5,000 to Peter Cilluffo, who was under indictment by a federal grand jury at the time for conspiring with an alleged Mafia boss. City Hall sources said that by the time Hacquebart wrote his letter in May, 1968 he could have transfered the shares to his wife. But they noted that the size of the shareholdings represented a substa ..." |
 | | Haley Jr., B Crazy, Man, Crazy: the Bill Haley Story by Bill Haley Jr., Peter Benjaminson Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2019 by Omnibus Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78558-832-7, ISBN: 1-78558-832-X |
 | | Death in the Afternoon America's Newspaper Giants Struggle for Survival by Peter Benjaminson Hardcover, 202 Pages, Published 1984 by Andrews Mcmeel Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-8362-7955-9, ISBN: 0-8362-7955-7 |
 | | Title Investigative reporting by David Anderson, Peter Benjaminson 307 Pages, Published 1976 by Indiana Up ISBN-13: 978-0-253-33164-9, ISBN: 0-253-33164-1 |
 | | Secret Police(1st Edition) Inside the New York City Department of Investigation by Peter Benjaminson Hardcover, 253 Pages, Published 1997 by Barricade Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56980-090-4, ISBN: 1-56980-090-1 "Book by Benjaminson, Peter" |
 | | The story of Motown by Peter Benjaminson Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 1979 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-394-17554-6, ISBN: 0-394-17554-9 "Alan Abrams, Christine Brown Arnold, Charles Berry, Edward Boyer, Kent Carroll, Sandra Elkind, Carey English, Helen Fogel, Jennifer and Judith Frutig, Claudia Goldin, Richard Hafner, Susan Harrigan, Ron Ishoy, Tim Kiska, Kurt Luedtke, Charles Mendoza, Tova Milinsky, Theodora Morales, Brownson Murray, Ladd Neuman, Alison and John Oppedahl, Alice and Jon Ratner, Mary Rousson, Jim Savage, Diane See, and Neal and Phyllis Shine. Motown ..." |
 | | Crazy Man, Crazy The Bill Haley Story by Bill Haley Jr., Peter Benjaminson 288 Pages, Published 2019 by Rowman & Littlefield ISBN-13: 978-1-4930-5085-7, ISBN: 1-4930-5085-0 "February Bill Jr. two 8, 1981, nights the in day a row. before Bill Bill Haley died, he called his Sr. was very distressed. ... Martha told Texas Monthly that when Jack Haley had visited in October, she, Pedro and Gina stayed at her sister's house ..." |
 | | Super Freak The Life of Rick James by Peter Benjaminson Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2017 by Chicago Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61374-960-9, ISBN: 1-61374-960-0 "“This is a family with the drive to be productive and successful and to make it.” Rick also has been said to be the nephew of Melvin Franklin of the Temptations. But Rick's brother LeRoi Johnson, a prominent Buffalo, New York, attorney and artist, says flatly that Franklin, who died in 1995, “is not related to us.” Johnson did say that Franklin might be connected to the late Alberta Franklin, who was Rick's aunt through marriage. F ..." |
 | | Mary Wells The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar by Peter Benjaminson 320 Pages, Published 2012 by Chicago Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61374-529-8, ISBN: 1-61374-529-X "... all three books I've written about the Motown Record Company and its fascinating artists; Frances Baugh, for providing information and contacts whenever I've needed them; Stephanie Campbell, a blogosphere radio star who's trying to make me one as well; John Smyntek, a former colleague of mine at the Detroit Free Press, for finding a crucial court suit that had been missing for decades; my other very helpful former or present Fr ..." |
 | | The Lost Supreme The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard by Peter Benjaminson Published 2009 ISBN-13: 978-1-56976-301-8, ISBN: 1-56976-301-1 |
 | | The Lost Supreme The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard by Peter Benjaminson 240 Pages, Published 2009 by Chicago Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56976-303-2, ISBN: 1-56976-303-8 "She followed this pattern with Diana Ross; Leonard Baun; Harry Okrent; Tommy Chapman; the men who kidnapped, robbed, and may have planned to kill her; and many other people and entities, including Motown. Florence always characterized her tendency to let her opponents off easy as a combination of disgust, sorrow for her foe, and fatigue. Of accepting the settlement from Baun, she said she did so because she thought, “Well, this can ..." |
 | | An Italian Education(1st Edition) The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona (An Evergreen book) by Tim Parks, Peter Benjaminson Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2006 by Grove Press Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4285-6, ISBN: 0-8021-4285-0 "Tim Parks’s best seller, Italian Neighbors, offered a sparkling, witty, and acutely observed account of an expatriate’s life in a small village outside of Verona. Now in An Italian Education, Parks continues his chronicle of adapting to Italian society and culture, while raising his Italian-born children. With the exquisite eye for detail, character, and intrigue that has brought him acclaim as a novelist, Parks creates an enchanting po ..." |
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