NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 22, 2010
"Whether a colorful trickster or amoral predator, Thompson becomes an irresistible folk legend in Cook's capable hands."
Former
Sports Illustrated editor Cook (
Driven: Teen Phenoms, Mad Parents, Swing Science and the Future of Golf, 2008, etc.) provides a raucous retelling of the life of a consummate gambler, grifter and quintessential American character.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 11, 2010
"Readable and revealing, and the vividly re-created scenes cry out for film treatment."
Inside story of the controversial Italian-American family that gave us the Italian-language daily
Il Progresso and the
National Enquirer.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 15, 2010
"Unlike the story of Ishi, however, this one has a happy ending--a payoff that isn't entirely anticipated, given all the other tragic aspects of the tale."
Washington Post South America correspondent Reel delivers a moving, well-constructed account of a latter-day Ishi in the embattled Amazonian rainforest.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 15, 2010
"A lucid, illuminating history of the epicenter of organized crime in America."
Former
American Heritage editor Ward reveals the seedy history of the old New York waterfront, a brutal, dangerous environment ruled by corrupt union officials and the mob.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 25, 2010
"Baseball fans and non-fans alike will revel in this loving look at a long-gone era."
A delightful history of the "weirdness, hairiness, overall funkiness, and sheer amusement" that was America's pastime in the 1970s.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 11, 2010
"An often harrowing, though mostly conventional, account of the physical and psychological toll of modern warfare on the average soldier."
The latest flexing of journalistic muscle from
Vanity Fair contributor Junger (
A Death in Belmont, 2006, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: May 11, 2010
"Fast-moving and intriguing, in the vein of Raiders of the Lost Ark."
From filmmaker Kirkpatrick (
The Revenge of Thomas Eakins, 2006, etc.), a vivid true-crime narrative about a post–World War II investigation meant to prevent Nazis still at large from using several venerable medieval artifacts to reconstitute the Reich.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2010
"An impressive, accessible history of a troubled time."
Scrupulously researched account of the men who made the 1920s roar, and the straight-arrows who stopped them.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2010
"A timely, artfully written memoir of one man's war."
Art historian and critic Lord (
Mythic Giacometti, 2004, etc.) recounts his life as a gay GI in World War II.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 27, 2010
"An expertly written study in true crime, vividly recapturing the mood of 1968."
From veteran journalist and historian Sides (
Blood and Thunder, 2006, etc.), a riveting account of James Earl Ray's long quest to kill Martin Luther King Jr.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 2, 2010
"Sure to appeal to armchair rogues and, like Blood Diamond, cinema-ready."
Exciting, well-crafted tale of the "School of Turin," a gang of master thieves who looted the putatively theft-proof Antwerp Diamond Center.
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