An official baseball resource offers stats and stories about the greatest Indians, a history of the club, and the records of every player who played for the Indians since 1871

Total Indians: The 1995 American League Champions from Total Baseball, theOfficial Encycl

Sports & Outdoors

John Thorn

Pete Palmer

David Pietrusza

Michael Gershman

Baseball

Penguin??Books

An official baseball resource offers stats and stories about the greatest Braves, a history of the club, and the records of every player who played with the Braves since 1871

Total Braves: The 1995 National League Champions from Total Baseball, theOfficial Encycl

Rothstein Lib/E: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series

The model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Arnold Rothestein was an underworld genius, racketeer, rumrunner, and mastermind who, as F. Scott Fitzgerald observed, played "with the faith of fifteen million people with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe." Jazz Age Broadway with its thugs, speakeasies, showgirls, political movers and shakers, and sports heroes comes to life in this vibrant biography of the man who reigned supreme when the fast buck ruled and violence stalked the streets of Gotham.

Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series (Library Edition)

History

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.]The exhilarating true life story of one of America's most nefarious criminals, the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, and Boardwalk Empire's baddest bad guy. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award and read by Grover Gardner The model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Arnold Rothstein was an underworld genius, racketeer, rumrunner, political fixer, and criminal mastermind who, as F. Scott Fitzgerald observed, played ''with the faith of fifteen million people with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.'' David Piertrusza unearths the canny way Rothstein fixed the 1919 World Series and unravels the mystery of A.R.'s November 1928 murder in a Times Square hotel room. Transporting listeners onto Jazz Age Broadway with its thugs, bookies, denizens of the race tracks, showgirls, political movers-and-shakers and stars of the Golden Age of Sports, this is a biography of the godfather of organized crime in America, who reigned supreme when the fast buck ruled and violence stalked the streets of Gotham.

Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series

Business & Money

Blackstone Audiobooks

Biographies

Blackstone Publishing

"1960 aims to take us deeper into the campaign than Theodore White's famous The Making of the President, 1960. And it does." &#8213;Chicago Sun-TimesAward-winning historian David Pietrusza's hard-edged account of the 1960 Presidential Campaign&#8213;the bare-knuckle politics of the primaries, the party conventions' backroom dealings, the unprecedented television debates, along with hot-button issues of race, religion, and foreign policy. And, at the center of it all, three future presidents&#8213;LBJ, JFK, and Nixon."Terrific " &#8213;Robert A. Caro, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and the National Book AwardIt was the election that would ultimately give America "Camelot" and its tragic aftermath. 1960 is a stunning recreation of the bare-knuckle politics of the primaries, the party conventions' backroom dealings, the unprecedented television debates, along with hot-button issues of race, religion, and foreign policy. And, at the center of it all, three future presidents&#8213;Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon.In this essential work of history, David Pietrusza chronicles 1960's struggle for power by bringing to life its towering events and personalities, unlocking its secrets, and turning expert scholarship into rich, human storytelling."A stirring, hard-edged political saga... An outstanding reexamination." &#8213;Booklist"1960 provides new insights into that year's hard-fought, pivotal election, but, more than that, 1960 is great storytelling&#8213;a fascinating, can't-put-it-down account of how American politics really works." &#8213;Former United States Attorney General Richard Thornburgh"Pietrusza's 1960 is essential for understanding the political forces that in many ways shaped the world we live in today." &#8213;David Mark, journalist, political analyst, and author of Going Dirty: The Art of Negative Campaigning

1960

Americas

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