"King was a bad-ass, " says Rieder, a sociology professor at Barnard College in New York who spent a decade listening to King's private and public recordings.

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In the third volume, finely translated into English by Margaret Jull Costa, Tupra forces Deza to watch a collection of incriminating videotapes of important public figures, recordings of unconventional private lives and horrific acts of violence.

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Horowitz contracted a private company to cut lacquer disc recordings of all of his Carnegie Hall recitals.

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