Best Selling Books by Spike Lee

The best interviews and profiles of America''s most prominent African American filmmaker

The phenomenon of Spike Lee continues with this revealing and engaging look at his outstanding career, his creative process, and the screenplay for his dynamic movie Do The Right Thing. Spike Lee burst full formed into the screen world with his award-winning, commercially successful independent film She''s Gotta Have It. In the few short years following this stellar debut he has established himself as a force to be reckoned with in the film industry and in American popular culture. This book reveals Spike Lee as a Hollywood iconoclast and gifted visionary and takes us though the dramatic sequence of events that brought the movie Do The Right Thing to fruition. It is a testimonial to his developing genius, written in the stingingly funny and informed language of Spike Lee.

Including Spike Lee''s advice on independent filmmaking, excerpts from the production journal Lee kept throughout the making of She''s Gotta Have It, and much more, Spike Lee''s Gotta Have It is a unique document in film literature. 30 black-and-white photographs.

Filmmaker Spike Lee and wife Tonya Lee Lewis join the ranks of other celebrity kids'' book writers with their sweet, rhythmic read-along about the endless energy of a toddler blasting through a busy day. From moments fussy to fond, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Spike Lee and his wife present a behind-the-scenes look at the chills, spills and unequivocal thrills of bringing up baby.

Pursuing one''s own path in life takes courage, strength, and perseverance, as demonstrated by such inspirational leaders as Barack Obama, Albert Einstein, and Muhammad Ali.

Two toddlers have fun with their puppy.

Spike Lee rises again. This time, he and Lisa Jones document his transition from struggling independent to mainstream filmmaker with the making of the Columbia Pictures film, School Daze. No longer working with a small cast and a painfully tight budget, Spike Lee and his crew find themselves working in a swirl of university politics, a cast of thousands, big musical production numbers and the not-insignificant pressures of coming up with a hit in the majors. He "uplifts the race" by demystifying the process of producing an entertaining commercial film that, at the same time, delivers a stinging - yet funny - critique on American culture.

Film director Lee tells of the obstacles he faced in making Malcolm X and also investigates the controversies in Malcolm''s life.

Millions have seen Spike Lee''s films - She''s Gotta Have It, School Daze, and the most provocative film of 1989, Do the Right Thing - and read the companion books - Spike Lee''s Gotta Have It, Uplift the Race, and Do the Right Thing. Spike launched his career with a romantic comedy, and now returns to romance, set against the backdrop of the music world, with Mo'' Better Blues. Academy Award-winning Denzel Washington plays a musician torn between two beautiful women and his ambition to be a star. In this unique document Spike speaks of the people and the events that created the film, including the thoughts and feelings of the musicians, actors, and crew. The book is illustrated with storyboards and 150 photographs that reveal the behind-the-scenes drama of Mo'' Better Blues.

Best Seat in the House, Spike Lee''s evocative and compelling basketball memoir, interweaves several journeys over a course of thirty years. The first is professional basketball''s metamorphosis from a fringe sport to the big-money spectacle it is today, filled with outrageously inflated salaries and egos. The other journey is that of Shelton Jackson Lee himself, who has gone from a skinny kid playing ball on the streets of Brooklyn, sneaking into Madison Square Garden to watch his beloved Knicks, to a student at Morehouse College and NYU film school, to a world-renowned film director and hoops fan. Along the way Spike takes readers on entertaining and provocative detours, including a one-on-one with that other Brooklyn-born, film-directing, Garden-inhabiting hoops fan, Woody Allen; reviews of sports movies (Spike has seen them all, and the results aren''t pretty); an unusually candid interview with Michael Jordan; and a stark assessment of the role of African-American athletes--both in the big business of sports and in the broader culture. But overall, Best Seat in the House is a love letter, from a passionate and unswervingly devoted fan, to the game and the team that took possession of Spike''s adolescent heart--the New York Knickerbockers--and held it without a turnover through thirty years. of bang-ups and fouls, bad calls and air balls. Best Seat in the House is a slam dunk.

A national bestseller, "Fight the Power" is an autobiography/treatise from Chuck D, the creative force behind Public Enemy, a founding father of Rap, and one of the music scene''s most political and controversial figures. Photos.