R D Rosen

Tough Luck

Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rosen presents a remarkable tale of a golden son and his disgraced father, layered over the unforgettable era of Brooklyn mobsters and the rise of the National Football League.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Atlantic
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780802129444
• ISBN-10: 0802129447
• Artikelnr.: 54803014

Autorenporträt

R. D. Rosen's many books include recent nonfiction that connects America's past and present, including A Buffalo in the House: The True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American West and Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust's Hidden Child Survivors. He won an Edgar Allan Poe Award for his first of five mystery novels featuring retired Jewish major league baseball player-turned-detective Harvey Blissberg, and has written about sports for many national publications. He has served as a senior editor for both ESPN Books and Workman Publishing, and once upon a time wrote or performed comedy for PBS, HBO, and Saturday Night Live. He grew up across the street from Sid Luckman in Highland Park, Illinois, and lives in New York, where he still roots for the Chicago Bears.