{"product_id":"the-lost-sessions-oded-levitte-9798262713769","title":"The Lost Sessions: A Musical Conspiracy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe songs you know by heart were written by men whose names were never allowed to appear on the label.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2023, Smithsonian researcher Sarah Rivers is digitizing music archives from the 1960s when she finds something that shouldn't exist: a memo. One page. Specific names, specific songs, specific instructions for how to make sure certain people never received credit for what they created.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe songs on that memo are now classics. The artists who wrote them died unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is an investigation that reaches back sixty years - through smoky recording studios, congressional hearings that went nowhere, anonymous letters that were never answered, and a network of musicians, lawyers, and industry insiders who tried to expose the theft and were systematically destroyed for it. The deeper Sarah goes, the clearer the picture becomes: this wasn't industry negligence. It was infrastructure. Built deliberately, maintained carefully, and profitable enough that people are still protecting it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lost Sessions\u003c\/i\u003e is historical fiction as forensic investigation - the story of what American music actually cost, and who paid for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Underground Railroad\u003c\/i\u003e by Colson Whitehead, \u003ci\u003eDevil in the Grove\u003c\/i\u003e by Gilbert King, and anyone who has ever wondered why the most powerful voices of an era are so rarely the ones history remembers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Oded Levitte\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798262713769\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/28\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Oded Levitte","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173223309567,"sku":"9798262713769","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-lost-sessions-oded-levitte-9798262713769","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}