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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
A Novel
Häftad, 1997
217 kr
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It was a big bestseller when it was originally published in 1969. It became a major motion picture that provided Robert DeNiro with his first film role. Its title has entered into the language as a catch phrase. And it's terrific fun!The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight is the story of Papa …
Jimmy Breslin: Essential Writings (LOA #377)
Av Jimmy Breslin, Dan Barry m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
421 kr
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Rediscover the golden age of journalism, when columns were events, through this collection of more than 70 pieces by a master stylist and larger-than-life character on the New York and national scene from JFK to Trump Plus, on its 50th anniversary, revisit the Watergate summer in How the Good Guys …
The Good Rat: A True Story
Häftad, 2009
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
265 kr
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Good Rat
A True Story
E-bok, 2009
114 kr
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A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist reveals a history of the American mob with "perfect diabolical detail. . . . A master at transforming crookery into opera" (New York Times Book Review).In his inimitable New York voice, New York Times bestselling author Jimmy Breslin gives us a look through the …
Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez
E-bok, 2010
227 kr
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The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez is a towering achievement by one of America’s most respected journalists. A work of conscience that travels from San Matías Cuatchatyotla, a small, dusty town in central Mexico, to the cold and wet streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this searing exposé …
I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me
A Memoir
Häftad, 1997
201 kr
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Call it a miracle, fate, pure luck, or just another day in the city where nothing is usual, but in 1991 Jimmy Breslin narrowly escaped death - which inspired him to write this book about his life. Two years ago, Breslin was having trouble getting his left eyelid to open and close. This was too …
The Church That Forgot Christ
Häftad, 2014
262 kr
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jimmy Breslin has established himself as one of America’s most distinctively Catholic voices. We have also come to know Breslin as the cocky guy from Queens, New York, who speaks insolently to powerful people and institutions, his words always tinged with a …
Church That Forgot Christ
E-bok, 2004
186 kr
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After a lifetime of attending mass every Sunday, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jimmy Breslin has severed his ties to the church he once loved—in this important book, filled with a fury generated by a sense of betrayal, he explains why. When the church sex scandals emerged relentlessly in recent …
Branch Rickey
A Life
E-bok, 2011
262 kr
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The book that inspired Harrison Ford in his portrayal of Branch Rickey in the hit movie “42” The idea of integrating baseball began as a dream in the mind of Branch Rickey. In 1947, as president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he defied racism on and off the field to bring Jackie …
Sunny Jim
The Life of America''s Most Beloved Horseman, James Fitzsimmons
E-bok, 2012
23 kr
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An evocative portrait of the Triple Crown–winning racehorse trainer: "sportswriting as good as it could ever possibly be" (New York Daily News). At seventy-seven, James "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons should have been considering retirement. His six-decade career stretched back to 1885, when, as an eleven …
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?
The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets'' First Year
E-bok, 2012
148 kr
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A “hilarious” look back at the 1962 Mets and their record as the worst baseball team in history by the New York Times –bestselling author ( Newark Star-Ledger ). Five years after the Dodgers and Giants fled New York for California, the city’s National League fans were offered salvation in the shape …
World of Jimmy Breslin
E-bok, 2012
237 kr
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist’s early columns “peopled by some of the funniest, looniest and saddest characters anywhere outside of a zoo” ( The New York Times ). In the 1960s, as the once-proud New York Herald Tribune spiraled into bankruptcy, the brightest light in its pages was an …
Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
A Novel
E-bok, 2012
131 kr
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New York Times bestseller: A novel of a messy mob war in Brooklyn that “makes you laugh out loud” ( Chicago Sun-Times ). Kid Sally Palumbo has been a loyal servant to the Brooklyn Mafia for years. His specialty is murder, and he is so skilled at it that he has gotten the attention of Mafia boss …
World Without End, Amen
A Novel
E-bok, 2012
131 kr
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Adrift in New York, an alcoholic cop searches for meaning in his life by revisiting his past The department has taken away Dermot Davey''s gun. After countless incidents of excessive force and on-the-job drunkenness, and one harrowing moment where he nearly killed a civilian, the New York Police …
How the Good Guys Finally Won
Notes from an Impeachment Summer
E-bok, 2012
132 kr
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New York Times Bestseller: A "superb" blow-by-blow account of how Tip O''Neill and his colleagues impeached Richard Nixon after Watergate (Chicago Tribune).Not long after burglars were caught raiding the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel, Congressman Tip O''Neill …
Forsaking All Others
A Novel
E-bok, 2012
131 kr
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A novel of crime and passion in the South Bronx by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Gang That Couldn''t Shoot Straight and The Good Rat.The Department of Corrections makes a mistake when it grants parole to a young Puerto Rican man named Teenager. After a few years in jail for dealing …
World According to Breslin
E-bok, 2012
134 kr
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Classic columns from the legendary New York journalist—"a master of the tough-talking, thoroughly researched, contentious, street-wise vignette" (San Francisco Chronicle). Although his career spans decades, the seven years that Jimmy Breslin spent at the New YorkDaily News sparked some of his …
Table Money
A Novel
E-bok, 2012
197 kr
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As a city worker and former war hero tumbles into alcoholism, his wife fights to hold on to her newfound freedom Owney Morrison has walked the catacombs underneath New York City since he was eleven. His father was a sandhog—a tunnel worker—and the first to introduce him to the miles of passageways …
He Got Hungry and Forgot His Manners
A Fable
E-bok, 2012
131 kr
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A Catholic priest sets his sights on sin''s frontline: New York CityFather D''Arcy Cosgrove honed his special talents during a mission to Africa, where he ministered to locals about the dangers of sex. To Cosgrove, sex is a menace to societies all across the world, with no country more stricken …
Novels of Jimmy Breslin
World Without End, Amen; The Gang That Couldn''t Shoot Straight; Table Money; and Forsaking All Others
E-bok, 2018
443 kr
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Tough, funny, moving fiction from the New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist. Jimmy Breslin was not only "the biggest, the baddest, the brashest, the best columnist in New York City," he was also an outstanding New York Times–bestselling novelist, equally …
Collected Nonfiction
How the Good Guys Finally Won, The World According to Breslin, and The World of Jimmy Breslin
E-bok, 2018
348 kr
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Colorful, riveting reportage from a one-of-a-kind Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New York Times–bestselling author. In his career as a legendary New York City newspaper columnist, Jimmy Breslin "leveled the powerful and elevated the powerless for more than fifty years with brick-hard words …
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?
The Improbable Saga of the New York Met's First Year
Häftad, 2002
152 kr
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Here, back in print, is Jimmy Breslin's marvelous account of the improbable saga of the New York Mets' first year, as Bill Veeck notes in his Introduction, "preserving for all time a remarkable tale of ineptitude, mediocrity, and abject failure." Indeed the 1962 Mets were the worst major league …
