Gehrig & The Babe: The Friendship and The Feud is the emotionally-gripping electrifying account of the relationship of legendary New York Yankee icons Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth and the tragic behind-the-scenes fight that bitterly tore them apart until Gehrig was dying of a horrific disease.
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Publishers Weekly on 'Chicano Power'
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Mickey Mantle
Prologue
“I guess you could say I’m what this country’s all about."
-- Mickey Mantle
IF MICKEY MANTLE HADN'T lived, broadcaster Mel Allen once said, he would have been invented. In a sense, then, Mickey Mantle, like most heroes, was a construction; he was not real. He was all that America wanted itself to be, and he was also all that America feared it could never be. The … Now available as an e-book at Amazon.com
"Gracefully written, deeply researched, full of passion, insights and surprising twists. A triumph."
— Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ira Berkow
AS THE GREATEST pair of sluggers to play together in baseball history, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig helped found the first Yankees dynasty. Together, the two men enjoyed unparalleled fame, all while being … Read More
An excerpt from Chicano Power:
IT WAS MIDSUMMER 1972, two weeks after he had turned down a place on his party's presidential ticket, and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, in that flat Boston twang so reminiscent of the voices of the other Kennedys, was recalling the past for a people whose own history on the continent predated that of his New England constituents. But it was the recent past that Kennedy recalled, … Read More
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