The biography of Moe Berg, sometime major-league catcher, sometime spy, sometime lawyer, and full-time enigma. Berg, a Princeton graduate and Wall Street lawyer who played sporadically (and not very well) with the major leagues between 1923 and 1939, was recruited by Wild Bill Donovan for the OSS during World War II, and he eventually was awarded ...
Full of heroism and heartbreak, the most beloved of American sports is also the most poetic, and writers have been drawn to this sport as to no other. With "Baseball: A Literary Anthology, " The Library of America presents the story of the national adventure as revealed through the fascinating lens of the great American game.
From the author of the bestselling "The Catcher Was a Spy" comes his most original work yet: a memoir of two cities, a family, and a boy who never quite fits in anywhere--and how baseball helps him find his place.
A guide to important sites in the world of country music, from the small hometowns of Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline to the buzz of Nashville. Dawidoff, the author of "The Catcher Was a Spy", writes as an outsider from the North, albeit one whose fascination and enthusiasm more than make up for his apparent naivete.
A memoir by the grandson of twice-exiled Harvard economist Alexander Gerschenkron traces the venerated scholar's flight to Cambridge from Russia and highlights his numerous contributions to economic theory, notably, the "Gerschenkron effect," which notes that changing the base year for an index will determine the growth rate of the index. A New ...
A guide to important sites in the world of country music, from the small hometowns of Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline to the buzz of Nashville. Dawidoff, the author of "The Catcher Was a Spy", writes as an outsider from the North, albeit one whose fascination and enthusiasm more than make up for his apparent naivete.
The best-selling author of "The Catcher Was a Spy" vividly reconstructs the life of his grandfather, Alexander Gerschenkron. Riveting and eloquent, "The Fly Swatter's" most unusual accomplishment is that it succeeds in telling the story of an extraordinary man's soul. 7 illustrations.
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 shaped by a stoical, enterprising mother, a disturbed, dangerous father, the private world of baseball, ...
The biography of Moe Berg, sometime major-league catcher, sometime spy, sometime lawyer, and full-time enigma. Berg, a Princeton graduate and Wall Street lawyer who played sporadically (and not very well) with the major leagues between 1923 and 1939, was recruited by Wild Bill Donovan for the OSS during World War II, and he eventually was awarded ...
Tracing some of the early influences of what is now considered country music, this book is a description of a cultural journey to the backroads, rural knolls and railway-crossing towns of Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia. The author sets out to show how the first practitioners' music, from the 1930s the 1960s, came to express the ...
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