The advent of war with Spain was a glorious opportunity for forceful leadership not to be missed by the hotheaded young Theodore Roosevelt. He resigned his post as assistant-secretary of the Navy in April, 1898, and, despite the strong disapproval of family and friends, he joined the Army as Lt. Colonel of a regiment to be raised in the ...
This title presents the epic struggle between a father and son and the building of a worldwide business empire. In this retelling of the story of the rise of Ford Motors, journalist Richard Bak offers a daring new perspective on the human drama that helped shape one of the world's great business empires. No dry corporate history, Henry and Edsel ...
In April 1896, a Detroit tradition began when the first baseball game was played at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull, in what was then known as Bennett Park. The fledgling Tigers triumphed, and a legendary stadium was born. The stadium would go through as many changes as the sport on its way to becoming one of the great, traditional venues for ...
This pictorial biography of the legendary aviator relives the joy and pain of Charles A. Lindbergh's remarkable, colorful, and controversial life. 150 photos, many in color.
When Joe Louis (19141981) knocked out the German boxer Max Schmeling in 1938 in two minutes and four seconds, the entire nationblack and whitecelebrated the "fight of the century" as a victory of the United States against the ominous tide of Nazism. Never had an African-American received such universal praise across racial lines. Heavyweight ...
This text focuses on the working people who, in the first three decades of the 20th century, made Detroit into one of the world's great industrial cities. Telling their stories through photographs with captions explaining its content and context, it examines the world as they lived and changed it.
This fascinating portrait of one of baseball's most charismatic, competitive, and, unfortunately, combative players is a remarkable wedding of words and more than 300 rare photos, many never before published. Cobb, starring Tommy Lee Jones, opens Thanksgiving Day in 500 theaters nationwide.
Now in paperback, The Day Lincoln Was Shot -- the first illustrated account of the Lincoln assassination -- details the events surrounding the fatal shooting of one of America's greatest leaders. On the evening of April 14, 1865, a well-known actor and Confederate sympathizer stole into the president's private box at Washington, D.C.'s, Ford's ...
Between 1920 and 1964, the Bronx Bombers dominated the game of baseball. It was a time when baseball players enjoyed an elevated status as national icons, a time when men wearing baggy, flannel uniforms and sporting pancake gloves played for little more than athe love of the game.a In this striking and nostalgic volume featuring many rarely seen ...
This is a narrative history of the Tiger Stadium in Detroit, home to the Tigers baseball team. It is a history of the people who owned the stadium, and the games and the teams that played there from its beginnings in the 1850s through to the Tiger's 1997 season.
Drawing on historical documents and riveting eyewitness reports of the Hunley exploits, and illustrated with more than 120 photographs, this book uncovers the fascinating drama and pioneering impact surrounding the Confederate submarine.
Lavishly illustrated with rare photographs, Casey Stengel offers a fresh look at this sports immortal. Covered in detail are Stengel's relationship with Joe DiMaggio--with whom he had a running feud--his attitudes and treatment of African Americans, and his extravagant successes and profound failures. Anecdotal sidebars showcase his more amusing ...
From the bestselling author of Ty Cobb comes a definitive biography of Lou Gehrig, "The Iron Horse". Gehrig was voted the MVP Award three times, set the American League record for RBI, and hit 493 home runs--including 23 grand slams, an all-time record. Bak explores the rift between Gehrig and Babe Ruth and examines the more controversial aspects ...
Although it has been more than 75 years since he last laced up his spikes, Ty Cobb remains arguably the greatest player in the long history of baseball. Certainly the Detroit Tigers outfielder remains the most controversial. He hit .367 over 24 seasons (1905-1928), won a dozen batting titles, and was the first man elected to baseball's Hall of ...
The companion book to the TNT original movie premiering in April 1998, "The Day Lincoln Was Shot" is the first illustrated account of the Lincoln assassination. Blending over 175 vintage photographs and illustrations, Richard Bak has created a spellbinding volume that graphically details, in words and pictures, one of the most heinous crimes in ...
The book hockey fans have long awaited! This is the first history of the Detroit Redwings, the only hockey franchise in the fabled "Original Six" never to have had a full-blown history written about it. At last, sports writer Richard Bak fills the gap. He weds an exciting narrative and statistical tables with more than 300 color and b&w photos ...
This work takes a long historical, social and cultural look at the history of Detroit as well as at Negro League Baseball. Stearnes and his friends contributed to the integration of America as pioneers of black baseball.
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African game trails, an account of the African wanderings of an American hunter-naturalist
