A landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood. One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank...Loe edasi...
A landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood. One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a yo...Loe edasi...
One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to prison for thirty-eight years. New Haven native Nichol...Loe edasi...
One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to prison for thirty-eight years. New Haven native Nichol...Loe edasi...
One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to prison for thirty-eight years. New Haven native Nichol...Loe edasi...
In his critically acclaimed book, In the Country of Country, Nicholas Dawidoff travels to the origins of country music and talks to the musicians who created this original American art form....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jul-2016, CD-Audio, Kirjastus: Audible Studios on Brilliance, ISBN-13: 9781522679400)
Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nicholas Dawidoff listened to baseball every night on his bedside radio, the professional ballplayers gradually becoming the men in his life. A portrait of a childhood shap...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jul-2016, CD-Audio, Kirjastus: Audible Studios on Brilliance, ISBN-13: 9781522676362)
The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA, Moe Berg has the singular distinction of having both a 15-year career as a catcher for such teams as the New York Robins and the Chicago White Sox a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Apr-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: Little, Brown & Company, ISBN-13: 9780316284509)
After practicing with the Detroit Lions for four weeks, the author participates in an exhibition game as the teams quarterback and recounts his experiences with an insiders perspective. The book that made a legend--and captures America...Loe edasi...
George Plimpton, Tom Wolfe, Nicholas Dawidoff, Nicholas Dawidoff, Nicholas Dawidoff, Dan Woren
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Apr-2016, CD-Audio, Kirjastus: Little Brown and Company, ISBN-13: 9781478939214)
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The book that made a legend—and captures America’s sport in detail that’s never been matched, now featuring an introduction by Tom Wolfe and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives. George Plimpton was perhaps best known for Paper Lion,...Loe edasi...
George Plimpton, Tom Wolfe, Nicholas Dawidoff, Nicholas Dawidoff, Nicholas Dawidoff, Dan Woren
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Apr-2016, CD-Audio, Kirjastus: Little Brown and Company, ISBN-13: 9781478939245)
The book that made a legend—and captures America’s sport in detail that’s never been matched, now featuring an introduction by Tom Wolfe and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives. George Plimpton was perhaps best known for Paper Lion,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Sep-2014, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Back Bay Books, ISBN-13: 9780316196789)
Relates the authors experiences while spending a year in the scouting department of the New York Jets, and discusses the time he spent with coach Rex Ryan, defensive star Darrelle Revis, and quarterback Mark Sanchez....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Nov-2013, Hardback, Kirjastus: Little, Brown & Company, ISBN-13: 9780316196796)
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Football is the countrys most popular pastime, and yet most of what happens in todays NFL is a mystery. The New York Jets gave Nicholas Dawidoff a security code, a locker, an office in the scouting department, and for an entire year he lived with...Loe edasi...
We watch football every Sunday, but we dont really see it. By spending a year with the New York Jets, Nicholas Dawidoff explored the game in such an intimate way that he can now put you right inside the NFL. He describes the Combine, the draft, the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Sep-2010, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9780292723344)
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Back in the 1940s and 1950s, almost every small town in America had a baseball team. Most players were simply local heroes with a local following, but a few teams achieved fame far beyond their region. The Alpine Cowboys-despite being based in Texas...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2010, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252035241)
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Showcasing American music and music making during the Great Depression, Hard Luck Blues presents more than two hundred photographs created by the New Deals Farm Security Administration photography program. Wi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2010, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252077098)
Showcasing American music and music making during the Great Depression, Hard Luck Blues presents more than two hundred photographs created by the New Deals Farm Security Administration photography program. W...Loe edasi...
The Crowd Sounds Happy is the story of a spirited boy’s coming-of-age in troubled times, by the bestselling author of The Catcher Was a Spy.Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nichola...Loe edasi...
An autobiography by the author of The Catcher Was a Spy describes coming of age in a disintegrating hometown in a troubled family during the 1970s, and the professional baseball ballplayers who become his role models and the game that becomes his sec...Loe edasi...
In his critically acclaimed book, In the Country of Country, Nicholas Dawidoff travels to the origins of country music and talks to the musicians who created this original American art form....Loe edasi...
