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1) Waco rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the birth of America's modern militias

Author

Cook, Kevin

Pub. Date

2023.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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"A news-making account of the war between David Koresh's Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today's militias"-- 1993: David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A two-month siege of their compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a firefight that killed seventy-six, including twenty-five children. Cook gives readers a taste of Koresh's deadly charisma and takes us behind...

2) Tommy's honor: the story of old Tom Morris and young Tom Morris, golf's founding father and son

Author

Cook, Kevin

Pub. Date

[2007]

Language

English

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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...

3) Ten innings at Wrigley: the wildest ballgame ever, with baseball on the brink

Author

Cook, Kevin

Pub. Date

2019.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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"The dramatic story of a legendary 1979 slugfest between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies, full of runs, hits, and subplots, at the tipping point of a new era in baseball history"--

4) The burning blue: the untold story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger disaster

Author

Cook, Kevin

Pub. Date

2021.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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"The untold story of a national trauma-NASA's Challenger explosion-and what really happened to America's Teacher in Space, illuminating the tragic cost of humanity setting its sight on the stars"--

5) Kitty Genovese: the murder, the bystanders, the crime that changed America

Author

Cook, Kevin

Pub. Date

[2014]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

6) Electric October: seven world series games, six lives, five minutes of fame that lasted forever

Author

Cook, Kevin

Pub. Date

2017.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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"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...

7) The last headbangers: NFL football in the rowdy, reckless '70s--the era that created modern sports

Author

Cook, Kevin

Pub. Date

[2012]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

8) Flip: the inside story of TV's first Black superstar

Author

Cook, Kevin

Pub. Date

[2013]

Language

English

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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.

9) Titanic Thompson: the man who bet on everything

Author

Cook, Kevin

Pub. Date

2011.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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Capturing the spirit of a freewheeling era, this rollicking biography brings to life the gambler-hero who inspired Guys and Dolls.

10) The dad report: fathers, sons, and baseball families

Author

Cook, Kevin

Pub. Date

[2015]

Edition

First Edition.

Language

English

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"In The Dad Report, award-wining sportswriter Kevin Cook weaves a tapestry of uplifting stories in which fathers and sons--from sport's superstars to Cook and his own ball-playing father--share the game"--provided by publisher.

11) Tommy's honour

Pub. Date

[2017]

Language

English

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Fall Sports

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An intimate, powerfully moving tale of the real-life founders of the modern game of golf.

12) Home game: big-league stories from my life in baseball's first family

Author

Boone, Bret

Pub. Date

[2016]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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"The first third-generation baseball player in Major League Baseball history provides a sometimes moving, always candid look at his family's 70 years in the world of professional baseball,"--NoveList.