This is the rollicking story of one of the best - and most colourful - baseball teams of all time, who lifted America's spirits and won the World Series during the darkest days of the Great Depression. "The Gashouse Gang" is a history of one of America's most famous baseball teams, the St Louis Cardinals. Author John Heidenry gives a vivid and ...
In this riveting account, John Heidenry crafts a haunting narrative of the 1953 kidnapping and murder of Bobby Greenlease by two grifiters. Bobby, son of Robert Greenlease, a wealthy automobile dealer, turned up in a geranium patch with a bullet in his head after the $600,000 ransom - the highest U.S. ransom ever paid up to that point - was met. ...
Hailed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review as a "hugely detailed, engagingly written history", this is the first behind-the-scenes account of one of the greatest American success stories of this century. Front page reviews in major publications.
When the "New York Times" sportswriter Arthur Daley called the 1944 St. Louis Browns 'the most astonishing ball club ever to reach the World Series', he wasn't handing out bouquets. An ill-assorted collection of castoffs, 4-Fs, no-accounts, farm boys, and brawlers with not much more than a few minor league games under their belts, the team was ...
A former editor of "Penthouse Forum" offers a landmark history of the turbulent past three decades of sexual culture--a startling you-are-there portrait of America in upheaval over every aspect of public and private life. He details the coming-of-age of the science of sexology through the work of Masters and Johnson; the burgeoning of popular ...
From aphrodisiacs to erogenous zones, Test Your Sex I.Q. offers an entertaining, intriguing, and completely unexpurgated view of the world's sexual marvels, mores, and milestones.
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