title: The Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen
author:  Bob Gendron 
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He uses interviews with all the band members to examine the musicians' influences, personal drama, and lifestyle, and to provide a window into the creative process of a group of musicians at the top of their game. This pocket-sized volume makes a nice afternoon read for the music fan for whom liner notes are simply not enough." <em>Book News</em>, February 2009<br /><br /><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" /><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId" /><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator" /><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator" /><link href="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CHEITL~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List" /><![if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument></xml><![endif]><![if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles></xml><![endif]><style><! /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal{mso-style-parent:"";margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-fareast-}@page Section1{size:8.5in 11.0in;mso-header-mso-footer-mso-paper-source:0;}div.Section1{page:Section1;}></style><![if gte mso 10]><style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-ansi-language:#0400;mso-fareast-language:#0400;mso-bidi-language:#0400;}</style><![endif]><span>&#8220;What works so well is how Gendron transcends <span style="font-style: italic;">Gentlemen</span> andthe era from which it was birthed to tell us the whole story. <span> </span>The focus is squarely on <span style="font-style: italic;">Gentlemen</span>&#8230;The bookmay bank on alternative nostalgia to sell itself, but it never sells thatnostalgia in its pages, choosing to give fresh stories to old fans and newconverts alike. <span style="font-style: italic;">Gentlemen</span> the book is a companion for <span style="font-style: italic;">Gentlemen</span> the album&#8221; &#8211;TheTiny Mix Tapes</span><br /><br /><br />&#8220;From explaining how the eerie hum which opens the first track was achieved by dangling a microphone out of a car window while driving over a bridge in the band's hometown of Cincinnati, to the story of how the evocative cover was inspired and photographed, Gedron covers in unpretentious detail the recording, production, arrangement and lyrics of this album by nineties alternative rock band The Afghan Whigs. He uses interviews with all the band members to examine the musicians' influences, personal drama, and lifestyle, and to provide a window into the creative process of a group of musicians at the top of their game. This pocket-sized volume makes a nice afternoon read for the music fan for whom liner notes are simply not enough.&#8221; &#8211;<em>Book News</em>, February 2009
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  Whig Against Tory
  
  
  INTRODUCTION.
  
  CHAPTER I. GEN. P. TELLS ABOUT THE EARLY LIFE OF
  
  
  ENOCH CROSBY.
  
  CHAPTER II. GEN. P. TELLS ABOUT THE WAR, AND HOW
  
  
  ENOCH CROSBY ENLISTED AS A SOLDIER FOR ONE CAMPAIGN.
  
  CHAPTER III. GEN. P. TELLS HOW CROSBY AGAIN
  
  
  ENLISTED AS A SOLDIER, AND OF HIS SINGULAR ADVENTURES.
  
  CHAPTER IV. GEN. P. TELLS HOW CROSBY ENLISTED IN
  
  
  THE SERVICE OF THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY, AND HOW HE WAS TAKEN PRISONER.
  
  
  CHAPTER V. GEN. P. TELLS HOW CROSBY CONTRIVED TO
  
  
  EFFECT AN ESCAPE.
  
  CHAPTER VI. GEN. P. TELLS ABOUT CROSBY'S VISIT TO A
  
  
  MOUNTAIN CAVE—HOW HE WAS AGAIN TAKEN PRISONER—AND THE MANNER IN WHICH
  
  
  HE ESCAPED.
  
  CHAPTER VII. GEN. P. TELLS OF THE FARTHER
  
  
  ADVENTURES OF CROSBY—HOW HE WAS OBLIGED TO SHOW HIS SECRET PASS—OF
  
  
  HIS RESIDENCE AT A DUTCHMAN'S—OF HIS BEING CRUELLY BEATEN AND
  
  
  WOUNDED.—CONCLUSION.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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