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The Time of Their Lives

The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors

by Al Silverman ...

A lively portrait of mid-twentieth-century American book publishing—"A wonderful book, filled with anecdotal treasures" ( The New York Times).According to Al Silverman, former publisher of Viking Press and president of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the golden age of book publishing began after World War II and lasted into the early 1980s.In this entertaining and affectionate industry biography, ... Read more

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A lively portrait of mid-twentieth-century American book publishing—"A wonderful book, filled with anecdotal treasures" ( The New York Times).According to Al Silverman, former publisher of Viking Press and president of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the golden age of book publishing began after World War II and lasted into the early 1980s.In this entertaining and affectionate industry biography,
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The Book of the Month

Sixty Years of Books in American Life

by Al Silverman ...

This collection of essays and reviews from the Book-of-the-Month Club offers a unique literary history of American readership in the twentieth century.From The Sun Also Rises to The Accidental Tourist, the judges, editors, and reviewers of the Book-of-the-Month Club help readers all across America find their next favorite book.In this comprehensive anthology compiled from the Club's monthly News, ... Read more

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This collection of essays and reviews from the Book-of-the-Month Club offers a unique literary history of American readership in the twentieth century.From The Sun Also Rises to The Accidental Tourist, the judges, editors, and reviewers of the Book-of-the-Month Club help readers all across America find their next favorite book.In this comprehensive anthology compiled from the Club's monthly News,
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It's Not Over 'Til It's Over

The Stories Behind Most Magnificent Heart-Stopping Sports Miracles of Our Time

by Al Silverman ...

Find inspiration in these "enjoyable" accounts of historic last-minute victories—both legendary and little-known—in the world of sports ( Booklist).From a former editor of Sport magazine, this book is a journey through a century of athletic endeavor, from baseball to boxing and beyond—filled with true stories that remind us of some of the qualities that can help to create a champion: perseverance, ... Read more

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Find inspiration in these "enjoyable" accounts of historic last-minute victories—both legendary and little-known—in the world of sports ( Booklist).From a former editor of Sport magazine, this book is a journey through a century of athletic endeavor, from baseball to boxing and beyond—filled with true stories that remind us of some of the qualities that can help to create a champion: perseverance,
... Read more
Cubs by the Numbers

A Complete Team History of the Cubbies by Uniform Number

by Al Yellon, Kasey Ignarski, Matthew Silverman, Pat Hughes ...

What do Dizzy Dean, Catfish Metkovich, John Boccabella, Bill Buckner, Mark Prior, and Kevin Hart all have in common? They all wore number 22 for the Chicago Cubs, even though seven decades have passed between the last time Dizzy Dean buttoned up a Cubs uniform with that number and the first time reliever Kevin Hart performed the same routine. Since the Chicago Cubs first adopted uniform numbers in ... Read more

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What do Dizzy Dean, Catfish Metkovich, John Boccabella, Bill Buckner, Mark Prior, and Kevin Hart all have in common? They all wore number 22 for the Chicago Cubs, even though seven decades have passed between the last time Dizzy Dean buttoned up a Cubs uniform with that number and the first time reliever Kevin Hart performed the same routine. Since the Chicago Cubs first adopted uniform numbers in
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The Time of Their Lives

The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors

by Al Silverman ...

Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

Unabridged

13 hours 33 min

In this love song to book publishing, Silverman offers a fascinating chronicle of the industry’s golden age, an era that began after World War II and lasted for over three decades. Relying on the eyes, ears, and memories of more than 120 notable publishing figures, including Alfred Knopf, the Doubleday fathers and sons, and the Thornhills of Little, Brown and Company, the author offers an intimate ... Read more

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In this love song to book publishing, Silverman offers a fascinating chronicle of the industry’s golden age, an era that began after World War II and lasted for over three decades. Relying on the eyes, ears, and memories of more than 120 notable publishing figures, including Alfred Knopf, the Doubleday fathers and sons, and the Thornhills of Little, Brown and Company, the author offers an intimate
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Cubs by the Numbers

A Complete Team History of the Chicago Cubs by Uniform Number

by Al Yellon, Kasey Ignarski, Matthew Silverman ...

What do Dizzy Dean, Catfish Metkovich, John Boccabella, Bill Buckner, Mark Prior, and Jason Heyward all have in common? They all wore number 22 for the Chicago Cubs, even though eight decades have passed between the last time Dizzy Dean buttoned up a Cubs uniform with that number and the first timeoutfielder Jason Heyward performed the same routine.Since the Chicago Cubs first adopted uniform ... Read more

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What do Dizzy Dean, Catfish Metkovich, John Boccabella, Bill Buckner, Mark Prior, and Jason Heyward all have in common? They all wore number 22 for the Chicago Cubs, even though eight decades have passed between the last time Dizzy Dean buttoned up a Cubs uniform with that number and the first timeoutfielder Jason Heyward performed the same routine.Since the Chicago Cubs first adopted uniform
... Read more

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Revolution’s End

The Patty Hearst Kidnapping, Mind Control, and the Secret History of Donald DeFreeze and the SLA

by Brad Schreiber, Cassandra de Cuir ...

Narrated by Brad Schreiber ...

Unabridged

8 hours 30 min

Forty years after the Patty Hearst “trial of the century,” people still don’t know the true story of the events.Revolution’s End fully explains the most famous kidnapping in US history, detailing Patty Hearst’s relationship with Donald DeFreeze, known as Cinque, the head of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Not only did the heiress have a sexual relationship with DeFreeze while he was ... Read more

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Forty years after the Patty Hearst “trial of the century,” people still don’t know the true story of the events.Revolution’s End fully explains the most famous kidnapping in US history, detailing Patty Hearst’s relationship with Donald DeFreeze, known as Cinque, the head of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Not only did the heiress have a sexual relationship with DeFreeze while he was
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The Long Surrender

by Burke Davis ...

Narrated by J. Rodney Turner ...

Unabridged

11 hours 51 min

In April 1865, Richmond fell to the Union army and Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to his Northern counterpart, Ulysses S. Grant, at the Appomattox Court House. But the Civil War was far from over.Determined to keep Confederate dreams of secession alive, President Jefferson Davis and his cabinet fled the burning capital city. With Union troops in pursuit, the fugitives rallied loyalists across the ... Read more

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In April 1865, Richmond fell to the Union army and Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to his Northern counterpart, Ulysses S. Grant, at the Appomattox Court House. But the Civil War was far from over.Determined to keep Confederate dreams of secession alive, President Jefferson Davis and his cabinet fled the burning capital city. With Union troops in pursuit, the fugitives rallied loyalists across the
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Long Island’s Vanished Heiress

The Unsolved Alice Parsons Kidnapping

by Steven C. Drielak ...

Narrated by Matt Weisgerber ...

Unabridged

6 hours 8 min

A new look at the 1937 abduction of a wealthy wife and mother, based on previously classified FBI documents.When she was kidnapped from Long Meadow Farm in Stony Brook, New York, in 1937, Alice McDonell Parsons was the heir to a vast fortune among Long Island's wealthy elite. The crime shocked the nation and was front-page news for several months.J. Edgar Hoover personally assigned his best FBI ... Read more

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A new look at the 1937 abduction of a wealthy wife and mother, based on previously classified FBI documents.When she was kidnapped from Long Meadow Farm in Stony Brook, New York, in 1937, Alice McDonell Parsons was the heir to a vast fortune among Long Island's wealthy elite. The crime shocked the nation and was front-page news for several months.J. Edgar Hoover personally assigned his best FBI
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Bessie

by Chris Albertson ...

Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

Unabridged

13 hours 16 min

Bessie Smith, the great singer known as the "Empress of the Blues," is considered by many to be the greatest blues singer of all time. She was also a successful vaudeville entertainer who became the highest-paid African American performer of the Roaring Twenties.Chris Albertson's revised and expanded edition of the biography of this extraordinary artist debunks many of the myths that have ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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Bessie Smith, the great singer known as the "Empress of the Blues," is considered by many to be the greatest blues singer of all time. She was also a successful vaudeville entertainer who became the highest-paid African American performer of the Roaring Twenties.Chris Albertson's revised and expanded edition of the biography of this extraordinary artist debunks many of the myths that have
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Alice

Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute

by Ivy Anderson, Devon Angus ...

Narrated by Marguerite Gavin ...

Unabridged

9 hours 55 min

The collected memoirs of a 1913 San Francisco sex worker, their effect on society at the time, and where they fit in today’s worldIn 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by Alice Smith. “A Voice from the Underworld” detailed Alice’s humble Midwestern upbringing and her struggle to find aboveboard work, and candidly related the ... Read more

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The collected memoirs of a 1913 San Francisco sex worker, their effect on society at the time, and where they fit in today’s worldIn 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by Alice Smith. “A Voice from the Underworld” detailed Alice’s humble Midwestern upbringing and her struggle to find aboveboard work, and candidly related the
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Speer

Hitler's Architect

by Martin Kitchen ...

Narrated by Michael Page ...

Unabridged

19 hours

A new biography of Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler's chief architect and trusted confidant, reveals the subject's deeper involvement in Nazi atrocities.In his bestselling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi Germany, repeatedly insisted he knew nothing of the genocidal crimes of Hitler's Third Reich. In this revealing new biography, author Martin Kitchen ... Read more

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A new biography of Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler's chief architect and trusted confidant, reveals the subject's deeper involvement in Nazi atrocities.In his bestselling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi Germany, repeatedly insisted he knew nothing of the genocidal crimes of Hitler's Third Reich. In this revealing new biography, author Martin Kitchen
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