{"title":"Dolly Parton Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eDolly Parton wrote her way out of Appalachian poverty and never stopped writing since — songs, a business empire, a genuinely enormous number of books about how she did it. This shelf covers the biography and the philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso see \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/dolly-parton-albums-vinyl-cds\"\u003eDolly Parton Albums: Vinyl \u0026amp; CDs\u003c\/a\u003e, or browse the full \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/music-books\"\u003eMusic Books\u003c\/a\u003e library.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- crosslink-mesh --\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYou might also like:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/books-author-maria-isabel-sanchez-vegara\"\u003eMaria Isabel Sanchez Vegara Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"aint-nobodys-fool-the-life-and-times-of-dolly-parton-hardcover","title":"Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartha Ackmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA larger-than-life new biography of country music legend and philanthropist Dolly Parton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAin't Nobody's Fool: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Times of Dolly Parton, Martha Ackmann\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the life of an American Original. From her impoverished childhood in the Smoky Mountains to international stardom as a singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, and philanthropist, Dolly Parton has exceeded everyone's expectations except her own. During a time when the Beatles set the standard for contemporary music, Dolly appeared on a local country music television show that her high school classmates thought was pure cornpone. The day after her high school graduation, she boarded a bus for Nashville, but record executives turned her down. One said her voice sounded like a screech owl. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Dolly finally got her foot in the door, her talent and focus catapulted her to the top of country charts, the pop world, and movie stardom. Yet her success came at a price. Shunned by many in Nashville who saw her ambition as a betrayal of her country music roots, Dolly became the target of death threats, lawsuits, and a judge who threatened to throw her in jail. She nearly collapsed on-stage and later succumbed to depression that pushed her to the brink, but she refused to be counted out and came back stronger than ever developing Dollywood, the amusement park that became the economic engine of East Tennessee, and founding the Imagination Library that provides free books to children around the world. Her philanthropy to health organizations led to creation of the Moderna COVID vaccine. And, finally, she returned to her roots, recording bluegrass albums that became the most celebrated of her unparalleled 60-year career. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAin't Nobody's Fool\u003c\/i\u003e is a deep dive into the social, historical, and personal forces that made Dolly Parton one of the most beloved and unifying figures in public life and includes interviews with friends, family members, school mates, Nashville neighbors, members of her band, studio musicians, producers, and many others. It also features never before seen photographs and unearthed documents shedding light on her family's hardscrabble life. More than anything, Martha Ackmann's fresh and animated new book proves Dolly Parton knows just who she is and she ain't nobody's fool.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartha Ackmann\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist and author who writes about women who have changed America. Her essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. She also is a frequent commentator for New England Public Radio, and has been featured on CNN, National Public Radio, and the BBC. Martha is the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. 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Achieving 25 RIAA-certified gold, platinum, and multi-platinum awards, she has had 26 songs reach #1 on the Billboard country charts, a record for a female artist. Parton recently became the first country artist honored as Grammy MusiCares Person of the Year given out by NARAS. She has 41 career Top 10 country albums, a record for any artist, and 110 career-charted singles over the past 40 years. In 2014, the RIAA recognized her impact on recorded music with a plaque commemorating more than 100 million units sold worldwide. Her 2016 #1 album, \"Pure \u0026amp; Simple,\" which topped the Billboard Top Country Albums and Americana\/Folk Albums charts and debuted at No. 1 in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Australia, added to that massive tally. 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Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Sarah Smarsh witnessed firsthand the particular vulnerabilities--and strengths--of women in working poverty. Meanwhile, country songs by female artists played in the background, telling powerful stories about life, men, hard times, and surviving. In her family, she writes, \"country music was foremost a language among women. It's how we talked to each other in a place where feelings aren't discussed.\" And no one provided that language better than Dolly Parton. In this \"tribute to the woman who continues to demonstrate that feminism comes in coats of many colors,\" Smarsh tells readers how Parton's songs have validated women who go unheard: the poor woman, the pregnant teenager, the struggling mother disparaged as \"trailer trash.\" Parton's broader career--from singing on the front porch of her family's cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains to achieving stardom in Nashville and Hollywood, from \"girl singer\" managed by powerful men to self-made mogul of business and philanthropy--offers a springboard to examining the intersections of gender, class, and culture. 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