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2006
| The presidential election of 1920 was among history’s most dramatic. Six once-and-future presidents-Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt-jockeyed for the White House. With voters choosing between Wilson’s League of Nations and Harding’s front-porch isolationism, the 1920 election shaped modern America. Women won the vote. Republicans outspent Democrats by 4 to 1, as voters witnessed the first extensive newsreel coverage, modern campaign advertisin....[more] |
2008
| It was the election that would ultimately give America "Camelot" and its tragic aftermath, a momentous contest when three giants who each would have a chance to shape the nation battled to win the presidency. Award-winning author David Pietrusza does here for the 1960 presidential race what he did in his previous book,1920: the Year of the Six PresidentswhichKirkus Reviewsselected as one of their Best Books of 2007. Until now, the most authoritative study of the 1960 election was Theodore White'....[more] |
2003
| The model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, Arnold Rothstein was much more than a fixer of baseball games. He was everything that made 1920s Manhattan roar. Transporting readers onto Jazz Age Broadway with its thugs, bookies, denizens of the racetracks, showgirls, political movers-and-shakers, and sports stars, here is the biography of the devilishly beloved gangland dandy who reigned supreme when the fast buck ruled and violence stalked the streets of ....[more] |
1997
| This book strips away the myths and facile explanations to reaveal the real Kenesaw Mountain Landis--with all the subtleties and contradictions that made him not only czar of baseball, but also the most famous, popular, and controversial federal judge in America. |
2002
| An initimate portrait of one of the most compelling sports figure of the 20th century, vibrantly told in Ted Williams own plain-spoken words. |
1992
| Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia is the perfect companion to the ultimate classic baseball reference work, Total Baseball. Whereas Total Baseball, now in its sixth edition, lists the statics of every player in major league history, Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia reveals the stories of 2,000 of the national pastime's greatest movers and shakers. |
1991
| New major leagues have sprung up throughout the history of baseball, both long-term successes (the American and National leagues) and the transitory, of which the Federal League (1914-15) and the Mexican League (1946) were two. Some leagues were born of noble motives (the Union Association, 1884, to abolish the reserve clause); others, farcical (the Global League, 1969). And many were stillborn, never playing that first inning (such as the Continental League, 1959-60). Here is their history and ....[more] |
1995
| In this book, Dave Pietrusza provides an enlightening overview of the minors, from the founding of the International Association in 1877 to the forming of the Northern and Frontier leagues in 1993. |
1997
| Chronicles the rise of night baseball. David Pietrusza balances precise research with an eye for intriguing anecdotal material. |
1990
| A Class C minor league during a turbulent 15 years: its stirring history reveals what minor league baseball-indeed, all of baseball-was experiencing. Begun in the Depression, this league saw the coming of night baseball, World War II, the prosperous postwar era, integration, competition with television, and final demise. And here are the stories of stars in the making: Bob Lemon, Tommy LeSorda, Al Rosen, Lou Burdette, Frank Malzone, Vic Raschi. Those who never made it to the majors are also pres....[more] |
2001
| The author of "My Turn at Bat" and "The Science of Hitting" presents a definitive pictorial autobiography of his life in baseball. In addition to 300 color and bandw images, many from the author's own collection, this attractive volume features Williams's candid words about his life both on the field and off. |
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