Connecting the Dots

Business & Money

John Chambers

Management & Leadership

Hachette Books

During World War II, the National Football League faced a crisis unimaginable today: a shortage of players. By 1943, so many players were in the armed forces that the league was forced to fold one team (the Cleveland Rams) and merge two others: the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles. Thus were the Steagles born. The Steagles included military draft rejects, aging stars lured out of retirement, and even a couple of active servicemen who managed to get leave for the games. The center was deaf in one ear, the wide receiver was blind in one eye (and partially blind in the other), and the halfback had bleeding ulcers. One player was so old he'd never before played football with a helmet. Yet, somehow, this motley bunch managed to post a winning record--the first in the history of the Eagles and just the second in the history of the Steelers. But Last Team Standing isn't just about football. It's also about life in the United States during World War II, a time of fear and hope, of sacrifice and momentous change. It's about rationing, racism, and Rosie the Riveter. It's about draft boards, bond drives, the A-bomb, and movie stars. Above all, it's about the men and women of the Greatest Generation who couldn't fight, but helped win the war in immeasurable ways.

Last Team Standing : How the Steelers and the Eagles the Steagles Saved Pro Football During World War II

Matthew Algeo

Final Victory : FDR's Extraordinary World War II Presidential Campaign

Stanley Weintraub

Eruption: The Eddie Van Halen Story

Since their debut in 1978, Van Halen has set a high bar for the rock 'n' roll lifestyle of good times and debauchery. It created an entirely new style of post-'60s hard rock and, unlike bands with a similar sound, managed to gain cross-gender appeal.There is an undercurrent of tragedy to the band's saga, however. Although Eddie Van Halen is a rock god, he is by all accounts hypersensitive and emotionally insecure. Living in the spotlight, his struggles have played out in public, from a battle with cancer that left him without one-third of his tongue to the break-up of his longtime marriage to Valerie Bertinelli.With insights from Van Halen himself, Eruption reaches beyond the boundaries of a conventional rock biography to explore the cultural, political, and social contexts that shaped an icon while turning up the volume on a life lived in the fast lane.

Eruption : The Eddie Van Halen Story

Paul Brannigan

Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island: The World War II Battle That Saved Marine Corps Aviation

John R. Bruning

The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music

Tom Breihan

The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now

Hilke Schellmann

Hysterical: A Memoir

Elissa Bassist

The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

April White

This Goes Out to the Underground: A Mother, Her Daughter, and How We All Rise Together

Biographies & Memoirs

Mahdavi, Pardis

Leaders & Notable People

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