The Passionate People

What is it like to be Jewish and American? Roger Kahn, himself Jewish, had his own answer, worked out through time and experience. But he wanted to explore it with others, so he launched a professional query. 
Kahn met with hundreds of other Jewish-Americans in all walks of life. From them he selected a gallery of individuals who struck him as representative...among them a youth at his Bar Mitzvah, a comedian at his work, a concentration camp survivor in Hollywood, a doctor on his rounds. 
"Kahn wakes us to the feelings of the Jewish minority and thereby engages our understanding of all minority groups...deeply moving and intensely felt." (Publisher's Source)

Roger Kahn

International Publications Ser

What is it like to be Jewish and American? Roger Kahn, himself Jewish, had his own answer, worked out through time and experience. But he wanted to explore it with others, so he launched a professional query. Kahn met with hundreds of other Jewish-Americans in all walks of life. From them he selected a gallery of individuals who struck him as representative...among them a youth at his Bar Mitzvah, a comedian at his work, a concentration camp survivor in Hollywood, a doctor on his rounds. "Kahn wakes us to the feelings of the Jewish minority and thereby engages our understanding of all minority groups...deeply moving and intensely felt." (Publisher's Source)

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Boys of Summer

Turtleback Books

This is an audiobook about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is an audiobook by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is a book about what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, and the others when their glory days were behind them. In short, it is an audiobook about America, about fathers and sons, prejudice and courage, triumph and disaster, and told with warmth, humor, wit, candor, and love.“A work of high purpose and poetic accomplishment. The finest American book on sports.” —James Michener

Boys of Summer, The

Sports & Outdoors

Baseball

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A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s

Through most of the Roaring ‘20s, Jack Dempsey was the heavyweight champion of the world. With his fierce good looks and matchless dedication to the kill, he was a fighter perfectly suited to his time. In A Flame of Pure Fire, renowned sports writer Roger Kahn not only chronicles the thrilling, brutal bouts of the Manassa Mauler, but also illustrates how the tumultuous 1920s shaped Dempsey, and how the champ in turn, left an indelible mark on sports and American history. The extraordinary story of a man and a country growing to maturity in a blaze of strength and exuberance, A Flame of Pure Fire is "an exhaustively researched and colorful portrait of an American great.” – The San Diego Union-Tribune “One doesn’t have to be a fan of boxing to be enthralled by this story of a nice guy who didn’t finish last.” – The New Yorker

Flame of Pure Fire, A

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Acclaimed baseball writer Roger Kahn gives us a memoir of his Brooklyn childhood, a recollection of a life in journalism, and a record of personal acquaintance with the greatest ballplayers of several eras. His father had a passion for the Dodgers; his mother's passion was for poetry. Somehow, young Roger managed to blend both loves in a career that encompassed writing about sports for the New York Herald Tribune, Sports Illustrated, the Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, and Time. Kahn recalls the great personalities of a golden era—Leo Durocher, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson, Red Smith, Dick Young, and many more—and recollects the wittiest lines from 40 years in dugouts, press boxes, and newsrooms. Often hilarious, always precise about action on the field and off, Memories of Summer is an enduring classic about how baseball met literature to the benefit of both.

Memories of Summer

Biographies

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

Roger Kahn's first major league hit was a grand slam: The Boys of Summer, his runaway best seller that immortalized the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers. Now Kahn does the same for players whose moment in the sun has not yet arrived. Good Enough to Dream is the story of his year as owner of the Class A, very minor league, Utica Blue Sox. Most of the Blue Sox will never make it to the majors, but they all share the dream that links the small child in the sandlot with the bonus baby who has just smacked one out of the stadium. It's a dream Kahn learned from his father, and in the course of a season, passes on to his daughter―hours of practice for a moment of poetry; a hard living but a touch of legend. Good Enough to Dream presents baseball unadorned, a game still sweet enough to lure grown men to leagues where first-class transportation is an old school bus and the infield is likely to be the consistency of thick soup. It is a funny and poignant story of one season and one special team that will make us hesitate before we ever call anything "bush league" again.

Good Enough to Dream

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The Passionate People

The Passionate People

Boys of Summer

Boys of Summer, The

Flame of Pure Fire, A

Memories of Summer

Good Enough to Dream