Martin Brady
Content by Martin Brady
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There just might be a God after all, because without divine intervention Keith Richards would not still be alive to have written his autobiography.
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In Fenway 1912, veteran sportswriter and self-confessed Red Sox fanatic Glenn Stout essentially offers a blow-by-blow account of the historic season in which the Sox posted their b
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Richard Lederer is a language maven. He's written 30 books on the subject, has a syndicated newspaper column called "Looking at Language" and hosts a weekly show on San Diego Public Radio.
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In contrast stands the life of former Pittsburgh Pirates great Roberto Clemente, whose undisputed talent, personal charisma and symbolic role as the major leagues' first Latin-American superstar have
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The story of Polly Bemis—the subject of Christopher Corbett’s The Poker Bride—has been told before.
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If ever a book captures men at their heroic best, it's Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty.
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There is no dearth of literature on World War II and the Holocaust. But events so cataclysmic, even 60 years later, continue to inspire research into stories not yet fully told.
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Steve Lopez is a newspaper columnist somewhat in the mold of Mike Royko or Jimmy Breslin.
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Acclaimed journalist Dominique Lapierre (Is Paris Burning? et al.) has a uniquely engaging approach to history, deftly intertwining facts and figures with a keen sense of the personal strugg
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Perhaps for the first time in its centuries-long history, golf has become, well, sexy.
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Perhaps for the first time in its centuries-long history, golf has become, well, sexy.
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Perhaps for the first time in its centuries-long history, golf has become, well, sexy.
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Perhaps for the first time in its centuries-long history, golf has become, well, sexy.
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Perhaps for the first time in its centuries-long history, golf has become, well, sexy.
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Another Lincoln book? Well, why not, given that the Great Emancipator is always a compelling figure.
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With the recent loss of the space shuttle Columbia, the world was once again reminded of the hazards and risks no matter how advanced the technology that are always present when man endeavors
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The single man can just about keep his stuff anywhere he pleases, whether it's his collection of vintage beer cans, his motorcycles, his baseball memorabilia or his pinball machines.
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syndicated columnist Molly Ivins is the former Rocky Mountain bureau chief for The New York Times and a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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Bruce Feiler has been called the new George Plimpton.
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Barbara DeMarco-Barrett is a journalist, editor, creative writing instructor and host of a weekly Southern California radio program called "Writers on Writing." Drawing upon her professional expe
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Veteran sportswriter Dave Kindred's byline has appeared, most prominently, in the Louisville Courier-Journal, The Washington Post and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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A really good volume of history provides the reader with a keen sense of perspective and a genuine appreciation for the past. This is exactly what David S.
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In June 1815, Capt. James Riley and the crew of the U.S. merchant ship Commerce set sail for Gibraltar near the Portuguese coast.
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Historical novels, according to author John Smolens, are “a unique amalgam of fact and fiction, conjecture and illusion,” and that’s certainly what he gives us in his si
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Many golfers have their favorite regular playing fields, but who hasn't dreamed of taking on the world's exclusive and historic venues?
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Annie Murphy Paul is a journalist whose work makes science more accessible to intelligent general readers.
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Even if we allow New Yorkers a little slack for their endearing nearsightedness, we'd probably have to admit some truth to their contention that Madison Square Garden is the world's most famou
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The 1934 St.
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Like any modern business, baseball utilizes increasingly sophisticated methods for assessing the abilities of its personnel and gauging the nature of success on the diamond.
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The international automotive industry has foisted many products on this car-crazy world, yet nothing has ever registered as vividly or as memorably in the public's imagination as the Volkswagen Be
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Perhaps no baseball player has been as lionized as Lou Gehrig, whose well-known battle with the disease that now bears his name was almost as prodigious as his hitting feats for the Yankees in th
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Austin Murphy's Saturday Rules: A Season with Trojans and Domers (and Gators and Buckeyes and Wolverines) finds the veteran Sports Illustrated writer traipsing across the country throug
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Bill Maher was a Cornell University grad in search of a career when he discovered stand-up in the '80s.
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Who'd have thought that Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) would be worthy of a major biography?
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On a cold day in February 1981, erstwhile longshoreman Joey Coyle and a couple of his South Philadelphia buddies set out to score some drugs.
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Paula Deen may be a walking food - and - entertainment conglomerate, but success hasn't dimmed her sincerely charming and caring ways.
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Longtime fans of mystery giant Dick Francis may be surprised, but also pleased, to know that, after a six-year publishing hiatus and at the ripe old age of 86 the master has returned with a new no
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The sinking of the steamboat Sultana in late April 1865 is an episode whose horrific importance has eluded wider coverage in Civil War history.
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Raymond Chandler wrote like the quintessential man's man.
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At the top of the holiday wish list for many music lovers is With Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars by Jonathan Kellerman.
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Ben Schott has enjoyed success with two previous books, Schott's Original Miscellany and Schott's Food &andamp; Drink Miscellany.
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John Grisham’s latest novel, Calico Joe, is something of a departure from the Arkansas-born author’s many bestsellers.
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For that car-enthusiast guy, Dennis Adler's Porsche: The Road from Zuffenhausen serves as an example of distinguished book-making and automotive history at its detailed finest.
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The memoir is a potentially problematic art form.
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A. Alvarez's The Writer's Voice is a relatively brief but concentrated exegesis in which the noted poet, novelist and literary critic addresses an advanced area of the writer's challenge.
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Super Bowl XL (that's 40 for the Roman numeral-challenged) will be played in Detroit on Feb. 5, 2006.
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Allen St. John writes for the Wall Street Journal and also contributes to other big-name national publications. In Made to Be Broken: The 50 Greatest Records and Streaks in Sports, St.
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Outta the park
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Former golf pro Steve Eubanks' Golf Freek: One Man's Quest to Play as Many Rounds of Golf as Possible.
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Yet another volume distinguished by marvelous photography is Porsche 911: Perfection by Design.
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BBC writer and car buff Richard Porter takes another, decidedly different, view of automobiles with his Crap Cars, a delightful photo-and-text rundown of 50 of the more lamentable models foist
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Finally, we come to a book that may prove vital to football fans no matter which game (college or pro) is their main obsession.
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Certainly the biggest, if not the best, volume is The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World.
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Until the 1950s, golf remained a rather elitist game, played for relatively modest purses and equally modest media attention.
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Mark Frost's The Grand Slam: Bobby Jones, America and the Story of Golf is definitely for the thinking golf fan.
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Matthew Rudy's Golf Digest Perfect Your Swing: Learn How to Hit the Ball Like the Game's Greats is for serious players searching for the stylistic tools to optimize tee-shot power and effi
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Technique is overrated, according to some golf observers.
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Well, OK I'll admit that not all men make a habit out of reading books.
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Well, OK I'll admit that not all men make a habit out of reading books.
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Well, OK I'll admit that not all men make a habit out of reading books.
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Well, OK I'll admit that not all men make a habit out of reading books.
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Well, OK I'll admit that not all men make a habit out of reading books.
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Well, OK I'll admit that not all men make a habit out of reading books.
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Poor Millard Fillmore. He's been a running gag for years.
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Civil War battlefields are consistently popular tourist attractions.
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Award-winning sportswriter Frank Deford has been contributing to Sports Illustrated since 1962, and has also done his share of TV and radio work, including weekly commentaries for NPR.
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The Paolantonio Report: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players, Teams, Coaches, and Moments in NFL History, by Sal Paolantonio with Reuben Frank, is yet another fan item, but one design
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World War II was a calamitous event that dramatically changed everything even the game of golf.
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Gail Sheehy is one of those writers with cachet.
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Author Rick Moody's first work of nonfiction lifts the veil on some of his own worst experiences from struggling with substance abuse and depression to surviving a destructive relationship with an ex
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In Hypochondria Can Kill, British health journalist John Naish offers amusing, often ironic reportage on strange or little-known maladies that have been cataloged by health organizatio
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Chris Baty is the founder of National Novel Writing Month (a.k.a.
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<b>It's all in your head</b> University of Missouri psychology professor Mike Stadler has always had a passion for baseball.
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Frank Lloyd Wright was not only a giant among architects, he was also a towering personality.
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It can’t be easy to be the daughter of a legend, with all the pressure and scrutiny that entails.
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Real men the ones who like to read will welcome the arrival of The Annotated Godfather: The Complete Screenplay. Film historian Jenny M.
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Another book on Lincoln?
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Jonathan Eig's Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season recalls events of 1947 when, under intense media and public scrutiny, Robinson made history as the opening day first
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Jackie Robinson's hardships enduring bigotry are well known.
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Bad Dog, by R.D. Rosen, Harry Prichett and Rob Battles, follows the format of last year's bestseller, Bad Cat in depicting the very strange behavior of household pets.
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In light of today's steroid scandals, it's both ironic and nostalgic to revisit a time when a baseball player's worst sins were womanizing and drinking.
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Since his childhood in the 1960s, author Richard Corfield has been fascinated with rocket travel and the vastness of outer space.
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In some ways, Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps represents the difficulties of contemporary American life.
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Daniel H. Wilson, a doctoral candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, has a serious background in robotics research.
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Ted Turner is the best - known maverick media mogul in the world. He's also a pretty elusive guy when it comes to revealing things about himself.
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Few journalists reach celebrity status. But if anyone is a superstar in his profession, it's Hunter S.
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While women are increasingly getting involved these days in do-it-yourself maintenance and repair, men are still the main tool-wielders and fixer-uppers in the home and out in the garage.
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It can be fairly argued that only three rock icons from the hippy-dippy '60s have really endured: Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and Neil Young, who is the subject of the massive, keenly detailed
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Like Leroy (“Satchel”) Paige’s barnstorming baseball life itself, what we know about the man is flung far and wide, over decades of disparate newspaper and magazine stories and oc
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He was christened Vincent Damon Furnier, but the world knows him as the original shock-rocker Alice Cooper, whose big '70s hits I'm Eighteen and School's Out launched a decades-long music car
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If a book's weightiness were measured strictly by the pound, then James W.
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Zack and Larry Arnstein's The Bad Driver's Handbook: Hundreds of Simple Maneuvers to Frustrate, Annoy, and Endanger Those Around You takes a common, everyday bugaboo and turns it on
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Last season's glorious The Football Book provides the template for this year's The Baseball Book, which, like its predecessor, brings to bear the fabulous photographic and journalistic
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Philip J. Lowry is an engineer and also a college professor who teaches Arabic language and Middle East politics. But Lowry's special passion is baseball in particular, baseball stadiums.
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Best-selling author James Patterson has multiple manuscripts on the drawing board at any given time, but when he decided to write about King Tut, Patterson suspended all projects and teamed up with
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Only one man has ever won 30 or more games in a season since Dean did it in 1934.
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New York Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui is coming off an injury-shortened 2006 season.
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With its thorough research and unstinting personal and professional detail, Ben Hogan: An American Life fills in the blanks of the life of one of America's most enigmatic and overachieving
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In Caddy for Life: The Bruce Edwards Story, all-world sportswriter John Feinstein offers a tribute to pro caddy Bruce Edwards.
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One day in 1995, journalist Paul Hendrickson, then a reporter for the Washington Post, found himself standing in Black Oak Books in Berkeley, California, where he was thumbing through a volume called
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Edited by sportswriter and former PGA Tour caddie Bradley S.
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Bob Knight is 72. I guess that’s not so hard to believe, given that he coached college basketball for more than 40 years (1965-2008).
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John Feinstein's latest, Tales from Q School: Inside Golf's Fifth Major, finds the noted sportswriter in characteristic investigative mode.
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A few years ago, committed amateur golfer Ron Cherney and sportswriter Michael Arkush sent letters out to 200-plus pro golfers, male and female, soliciting their feedback about their personal bes
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In The Interpreter, noted academic and National Book Award nominee Alice Kaplan digs into the archives of World War II to shed some ominous light on U.S. Army courts martial.
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<b>Restoring Burr's tarnished image</b> What the generally educated know about Aaron Burr: He fatally wounded Founding Father Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
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Chicago-based entertainment writer Bill Zehme (pronounced ZAY-mee) has been cranking out interesting and colorful celebrity profiles for 20 years, mostly for such magazines as Esquire, Playboy, Ro
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arren Adler takes an entrepreneurial approach to high-tech publishing Warren Adler is one adaptable author.
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October 3, 1951, is a landmark date in baseball history.
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Many of Ronald Kidd's novels for children and young adults are built on keen historical research.
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Golf, an entry in DK's Eyewitness Companions series, is a must-have volume for both casual and committed fans.
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The Marvel Vault is a sturdy yet elegant, spiral-bound tribute to the art and artistry of the Marvel Comic Group, which since 1939 has fed the imaginations of millions through its tales of
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A populist writer with a gift for readable biography and a reverence for America’s past, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough delivers another compelling work of narrative history in his latest work, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris.
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Yoga remains a popular pursuit for people of all ages, and veteran sportswriter and journalist John Capouya is among the committed devotees.
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In The Long Way Home, journalist David Laskin sets out to tell the stories of 12 immigrant men who served in the U.S. armed forces during World War I.
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Joseph T.
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As a stand-up comedian and, more recently, in his WB television program "Blue Collar TV," Jeff Foxworthy has gained a reputation for having a little more savoir faire than his redneck peers.
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In this year's very strong field of sports gifts, The Football Book probably leads the pack.
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For pure sports journalism, one would be challenged to find a finer book than John Taylor's The Rivalry: Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and the Golden Age of Basketball.
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Since 2006, Whitman Publishing of Atlanta has been issuing football vault books, a series of richly produced, slipcase-bound memorabilia volumes focusing on the major college football factories
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In Astronomy: A Visual Guide, British science writer Mark A. Garlick offers us the reassuring news that the sun has enough fuel to last another 5,000 to 8,500 million years.
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Contemporary with Schulz's mid-to-late-century emergence was that of MAD magazine, the subversively satirical monthly that showcased a wide variety of incredibly gifted cartoon stylists.
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Great baseball biographies are best served by great subjects, but good writing doesn’t hurt either; Roger Maris: Baseball’s Reluctant Hero has both.
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Julia Scheeres' memoir Jesus Land is a painfully candid account of a family riddled with dysfunction.
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Steven Johnson writes about intricate subjects; his previous books have addressed communications technology, medical epidemics, the impact of popular culture—even the life of English theologi
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Only once in a long while does a sports book come along that captures the essence of the game with a combination of honesty, humanity and journalistic rigor.
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Lawyer/historian James L.
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In the late 1950s, an ambitious, enterprising young Detroit songwriter named Berry Gordy Jr. got his feet wet in the music business.
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Former Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Steve Garvey grew up in Florida, where his father drove a Greyhound bus and often ferried around major league teams during spring training.
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In the service of economy, student texts on Civil War history usually sum up John Brown’s famous October 16, 1859, abolitionist raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry by noting that Robe
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Many words have already been expended in striving to ascertain the truth about Mickey Mantle. The Mick was certainly a sports hero—the statistics and on-the-field achievements bear that out.
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At the turn of the 20th century, Brits ruled the game, amateurism held high status and few actually pursued golf for a living.
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Golf's Golden Age: Robert T. Jones, Jr.
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Held annually in April at Georgia's Augusta National Golf Club, the Masters is a hallowed sporting event.
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At the 2004 Masters, fan favorite Phil Mickelson won the green jacket while finally capturing his first (and long-overdue) major tournament.
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Woody Guthrie’s place in American culture is well established.
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Willie Mays is one of the best-known athletes of the 20th century—not to mention arguably the greatest all-around baseball player ever. Veteran newspaperman and book author James S.
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American history will probably never produce a thornier personality than Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln's misunderstood presidential successor and the overseer of a misshapen Reconstruction.
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Sometimes, with great artists, it might be better not to know about their personal lives, their idiosyncratic beliefs, about their sanctimonious self-perception.
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Miles Davis was a modern jazz master and in some ways the Picasso of his musical milieu a difficult, cantankerous, peculiar, tortured man who was, of course, a genius.
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If ever there were cause for baseball's rebound in the public consciousness, it was last fall's performance by the Boston Red Sox, who miraculously defeated the dreaded New York Yankees on their way
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Dan Shaughnessy's Reversing the Curse: Inside the 2004 Boston Red Sox is a blow-by-blow account of the unlikely 2004 Sox triumph.
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It's a long way from Stovall, Mississippi, to the South Side of Chicago.
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At an age when most journalists are just starting to excel at their craft, 28-year-old Jake Halpern has already scored writing credits in The New Yorker and The New Republic.
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There was a time when the art of memoir-writing was generally relegated to the rich, famous and powerful.
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In The Mercury 13, journalist and Mount Holyoke College professor Martha Ackmann serves up a fascinating account of the efforts by women to become astronauts in the early days of the U.S.
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Zack Hample is already famous for collecting nearly 3,000 baseballs all of which he caught or found at major league games.
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In the shadow of Clinch Mountain in Scott County, Virginia, lies what is called Poor Valley. Out of this hardscrabble environment emerged the legendary musical pioneers the Carter family. A.P.
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The fact that teenagers are the target of elaborate corporate marketing schemes both aggressive and subliminal is no revelation.
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"The manuscript of an out-of-control writer is not a pretty thing to behold: sloppy, confused, slapdash, disjointed," writes Herman Gollob, author of Me and Shakespeare.
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What are the odds?
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The U.S. of the 1950s has traditionally been viewed as wholesome and peaceful, dominated by the sober presidency of Dwight Eisenhower.
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In a more whimsical vein comes Bob Mathews' Chicks Dig Fries: A Guide for Clueless Men.
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Armchair historians will revel in World War II, a strikingly informative and visually gratifying oversized omnibus supervised by three major British journalists: H.P.
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Tom Callahan, author of last season's excellent Johnny U, returns with The GM: The Inside Story of a Dream Job and the Nightmares That Go with It, in which he chronicles the final year
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Former star NFL running back Jerome Bettis won a Super Bowl ring following the 2005 season, then bowed out of the game after 13 years of consistent excellence with the Rams and Steelers.
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