Who Killed John Lennon?
Title | Who Killed John Lennon? PDF eBook |
Author | Fenton Bresler |
Publisher | St Martins Press |
Total Pages | 353 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780312923679 |
Based on six years of extensive research into the background and motives of assassin Mark Chapman and the circumstances of the murder, the author contends that Chapman was part of a political plot
The Catcher in the Rye
Title | The Catcher in the Rye PDF eBook |
Author | J. D. Salinger |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Total Pages | 204 |
Release | 2019-08-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316460001 |
The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books. "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.
Let Me Take You Down
Title | Let Me Take You Down PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Jones |
Publisher | Villard |
Total Pages | 309 |
Release | 2011-02-23 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307779963 |
A top crime journalist reveals precisely how the world-shattering murder of John Lennon happened—and why In Let Me Take You Down, Jack Jones penetrates the borderline world of dangerous fantasy in which Mark David Chapman stalked and killed Lennon: Mark David Chapman rose early on the morning of December 8 to make final preparations. . . . Chapman had neatly arranged and left behind a curious assortment of personal items on top of the hotel dresser. In an orderly semicircle, he had laid out his passport, an eight-track tape of the music of Todd Rundgren, his little Bible, open to The Gospel According to John (Lennon). He left a letter from a former YMCA supervisor at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, where five years earlier, he had worked with refugees from the Vietnam War. Beside the letter were two photographs of himself surrounded by laughing Vietnamese children. At the center of the arrangement of personal effects, he had placed the small Wizard of Oz poster of Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion. “I woke up knowing, somehow, that when I left that room, that was the last time I would see the room again,” Chapman recalled. “I truly felt it in my bones. I don’t know how. I had never seen John Lennon up to that point. I only knew that he was in the Dakota. But I somehow knew that it was it, this was the day. So I laid out on the dresser at the hotel room . . . just a tableau of everything that was important in my life. So it would say, ‘Look, this is me. Probably, this is the real me. This is my past and I’m going, gone to another place.’ “I practiced what it was going to look like when police officers came into the room. It was like I was going through a door and I knew I was going to go through a door, the poet’s door, William Blake’s door, Jim Morrison’s door. . . . I was leaving what I was, going into a future of uncertainty.” Praise for Let Me Take You Down “Jack Jones has written a beautiful book, rare in its attention to the social context giving rise to stalkers and assassins of celebrities . . . celebrity worship is ambivalent—admiration shares the altar with envy. When the worshipped disappoints, a ‘nobody’ can become a ‘somebody’ by killing the pop culture idol. Let Me Take You Down is both fascinating and brilliant.”—Ladd Wheeler, Professor of Psychology, University of Rochester, Former President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
The Murder of John Lennon
Title | The Murder of John Lennon PDF eBook |
Author | Fenton Bresler |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 309 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Murder |
ISBN | 9780749303570 |
Death of a Dreamer
Title | Death of a Dreamer PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Behnke |
Publisher | Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | 100 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0761388494 |
New York, December 8, 1980: The announcement shocked the world. Beatles founder and legendary musician John Lennon had been murdered in front of his New York home. With no warning, a lone gunman opened fire, shooting Lennon in the back just as Lennon returned from a recording session with his wife, Yoko Ono. Husband, father of two, cultural icon, and hero to millions, Lennon was dead. Around the globe, people mourned the loss of a man who had stood for peace, a man who had given so much joy to the world through his gift of music. No one had seen it coming...except one man—Mark David Chapman, Lennon's assassin. What drove this former Beatles fan to commit such a terrible act? Follow the lives of both Lennon and Chapman, learn about the political and cultural settings in which both grew up, and trace—step by excruciating step—the final moments of John Lennon's life.
Who Killed John Lennon?
Title | Who Killed John Lennon? PDF eBook |
Author | Lesley-Ann Jones |
Publisher | John Blake Publishing |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2020-09-17 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781789462975 |
The Last Days of John Lennon
Title | The Last Days of John Lennon PDF eBook |
Author | James Patterson |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Total Pages | 470 |
Release | 2020-12-07 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 0316429074 |
Discover one of the greatest true crime stories in music history, as only James Patterson can tell it. With the Beatles, John Lennon surpasses his youthful dreams, achieving a level of superstardom that defies classification. “We were the best bloody band there was,” he says. “There was nobody to touch us.” Nobody except the original nowhere man, Mark David Chapman. Chapman once worshipped his idols from afar—but now harbors grudges against those, like Lennon, whom he feels betrayed him. He’s convinced Lennon has misled fans with his message of hope and peace. And Chapman’s not staying away any longer. By the summer of 1980, Lennon is recording new music for the first time in years, energized and ready for it to be “(Just Like) Starting Over.” He can’t wait to show the world what he will do. Neither can Chapman, who quits his security job and boards a flight to New York, a handgun and bullets stowed in his luggage. The greatest true-crime story in music history, as only James Patterson can tell it. Enriched by exclusive interviews with Lennon’s friends and associates, including Paul McCartney, The Last Days of John Lennon is the thrilling true story of two men who changed history: One whose indelible songs enliven our world to this day—and the other who ended the beautiful music with five pulls of a trigger.