Kevin Cook
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
May 17, 1979. Nobody expected an afternoon game to be much more than a lazy early-season contest matching two teams heading in opposite directions-- the first-place Phillies and those lovable losers, the Cubs. Cook provides a vivid account of a game that saw a combination of thirteen runs in the first inning-- and only got crazier from there. Among those involved: Hall of Famers, a surly slugger, a troubled relief pitcher, and two managers pulling...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The story of six unlikely heroes and the epic World Series that changed their lives forever. The 1947 World Series was 'the most exciting ever' in the words of Joe DiMaggio, with a decade's worth of drama packed into seven games between the mighty New York Yankees and the underdog Brooklyn Dodgers. It was Jackie Robinson's first Series, a postwar spectacle featuring Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway and President Harry Truman in supporting roles. It...
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Bringing to life golf's founding father and son, Tommy's Honor is a stirring tribute to two legendary players and a vivid evocation of their colorful, rip-roaring times. The Morrises were towering figures in their day. Old Tom began life as a nobody-he was the son of a weaver and a maid. But he was born in St. Andrews, Scotland, the cradle of golf, and the game was in his blood. He became the Champion Golfer of Scotland. As "Keeper of the Green" at...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In Waco Rising, Kevin Cook provides the authoritative account of the FBI's two-month siege of David Koresh and his Branch Davidians. He tells the full saga of fifty-one days that changed America, culminating in a firefight that killed seventy-six, including more than twenty children. Cook shows how the events in Waco are hardwired into the DNA of American extremists - from Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh's claims that "Waco started this war"...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Chronicles Wilson's meteoric rise through the Chitlin' Circuit of segregated nightclubs to his breakthrough on Johnny Carson's Tonight show to his hit variety show, on which he created such outrageous characters as the sassy Geraldine and flock-fleecing Reverend Leroy.
8) The last headbangers: NFL football in the rowdy, reckless '70s - the era that created modern sports
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In The Tiger Slam, Kevin Cook delivers a gripping, inside-the-ropes account of an astonishing streak of victories that left Woods's rivals scrambling to keep up. Readers will hear from many of golf's biggest names--Tiger's caddie, his coach, his opponents, his idols, and others, all offering fresh insight into the electrifying highs of his victories and the obstacles on and off the course that threatened his relentless pursuit of perfection."--Provided...
Publisher
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"This examination of Braque's career features exquisite reproductions and incisive historical and aesthetic investigations of his work leading up to and during World War II. This book offers the first detailed examination of Braque's experiments with still lifes and interiors during a significant, though overlooked, time in his career. One of the leading founders of Cubism, Braque employed the genre of the still life to conduct a lifelong investigation...
11) Tommy's honour
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"TOMMY'S HONOUR is based on the powerfully moving true story of the challenging relationship between "Old" Tom and "Young" Tommy Morris, the dynamic father-son team who ushered in the modern game of golf. As their fame grew, Tom and Tommy, Scotland's Golf Royalty, were touched by drama and personal tragedy. At first matching his father's success, Tommy's talent and fame grew to outshine his father's accomplishments and respect as founder of the Open...