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One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was
shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation
culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to
prison for thirty-eight years. New Haven native and acclaimed
author Nicholas Dawidoff returned home and spent eight years
reporting the deeper story of this injustice, and what it reveals
about the enduring legacies of social and economic disparity. In
The Other Side of Prospect, he has produced an immersive portrait
of a seminal community in an old American city now beset by
division and gun violence. Tracing the histories of three people
whose lives meet in tragedy—victim Pete Fields, likely murderer
Major, and Bobby—Dawidoff indelibly describes optimistic families
coming north from South Carolina as part of the Great Migration,
for the promise of opportunity and upward mobility, and the
harrowing costs of deindustrialization and neglect. Foremost are
the unique challenges confronted by children like Major and Bobby
coming of age in their “forgotten” neighborhood, steps from
Yale University. After years in prison, with the help of a
true-believing lawyer, Bobby is finally set free. His subsequent
struggles with the memories of prison, and his heartbreaking
efforts to reconnect with family and community, exemplify the
challenges the formerly incarcerated face upon reentry into society
and, writes Reginald Dwayne Betts, make this “the best book about
the crisis of incarceration in America.” The Other Side of
Prospect is a reportorial tour de force, at once a sweeping account
of how the injustices of racism and inequality reverberate through
the generations, and a beautifully written portrait of American
city life, told through a group of unforgettable people and their
intertwined experiences.
One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was
shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation
culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to
prison for thirty-eight years. New Haven native and acclaimed
author Nicholas Dawidoff returned home and spent eight years
reporting the deeper story of this injustice, and what it reveals
about the enduring legacies of social and economic disparity. In
The Other Side of Prospect, he has produced an immersive portrait
of a seminal community in an old American city now beset by
division and gun violence. Tracing the histories of three people
whose lives meet in tragedy-victim Pete Fields, likely murderer
Major, and Bobby-Dawidoff indelibly describes optimistic families
coming north from South Carolina as part of the Great Migration,
for the promise of opportunity and upward mobility, and the
harrowing costs of deindustrialization and neglect. Foremost are
the unique challenges confronted by children like Major and Bobby
coming of age in their "forgotten" neighborhood, steps from Yale
University. After years in prison, with the help of a
true-believing lawyer, Bobby is finally set free. His subsequent
struggles with the memories of prison, and his heartbreaking
efforts to reconnect with family and community, exemplify the
challenges the formerly incarcerated face upon reentry into society
and, writes Reginald Dwayne Betts, make this "the best book about
the crisis of incarceration in America." The Other Side of Prospect
is a reportorial tour de force, at once a sweeping account of how
the injustices of racism and inequality reverberate through the
generations, and a beautifully written portrait of American city
life, told through a group of unforgettable people and their
intertwined experiences.
A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have
taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the
twenty-first century. In his critically acclaimed book, In the
Country of Country, Nicholas Dawidoff travels to the origins of
country music and talks to the musicians who created this original
American art form. Here, amongst others, are indelible portraits of
Johnny Cash, behind whose black apparel lies a Faustian dilemma;
Merle Haggard, a man as elusive as he is gifted; and Patsy Cline, a
lonely figure striding out bravely in a male-dominated world. An
exhilarating journey from Maces Springs, Virginia to Bakersfield,
California, In the Country of Country conveys the spirit and
passion that informs country music and confirms Dawidoff's
reputation as one of the most gifted cultural commentators of his
generation.
The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA, Moe Berg has the singular distinction of having both a 15-year career as a catcher for such teams as the New York Robins and the Chicago White Sox and that of a spy for the OSS during World War II. Here, Dawidoff provides "a careful and sympathetic biography" (Chicago Sun-Times) of this enigmatic man. Photos.
An unrivaled portrait of day-to-day life in the NFL: "Riveting...An
instant classic." -- "New York Times Book Review"
By spending a year with the New York Jets, Nicholas Dawidoff
entered a mysterious and private world with its own rituals and
language. Equal parts "Paper Lion, Moneyball, Friday Night Lights,
"and "The Office, "this absorbing, funny, and vivid narrative gets
to the heart of a massive and stressful collective endeavor.
Here is football in many faces: the polarizing, brilliant, and
hilarious head coach; the general manager, whose job is to support
(and suppress) the irrepressible coach; the defensive coaches and
their in-house rivals, the offensive coaches; and of course the
players. Wise safeties, brooding linebackers, high-strung
cornerbacks, enthusiastic rookies, and a well-read nose tackle-they
make up a strange and complex family. Dawidoff makes an emblematic
NFL season come alive for fans and nonfans alike in a book about
football that will forever change the way people watch and think
about the sport.
In The Fly Swatter, Nicholas Dawidoff--bestselling author of The Catcher Was a Spy--vividly reconstructs the life of his grandfather, Alexander Gerschenkron-the Harvard professor who knew the most.
A fascinating character, Gerschenkron feuded with Vladimir Nabokov and John Kenneth Galbraith, flirted with Marlene Dietrich, and played chess with Marcel Duchamp and one-upped both Isiah Berlin and (allegedly) Ted Williams. At Harvard, this celebrated polyglot was known as “The Great Gerschenkron.” He was an influential economic theorist who knew twenty languages and so much about so many other things that he was offered chairs in three departments. All this after beginning life with traumatic dramatic escapes from the Bolsheviks (in 1920) and the Nazis (in 1938). Riveting and eloquent, The Fly Swatter's most unusual accomplishment is that it succeeds in telling the extraordinary story of a man's soul.
The book that made a legend--and capture's America's sport in
detail that's never been matched, now featuring a foreword by
Nicholas Dawidoff a and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton
Archives. George Plimpton was perhaps best known for PAPER LION,
the book that set the bar for participatory sports journalism. With
his characteristic wit, Plimpton recounts his experiences in
talking his way into training camp with the Detroit Lions,
practicing with the team, and taking snaps behind center. His
breezy style captures the pressures and tensions rookies confront,
the hijinks that pervade when sixty high-strung guys live together
in close quarters, and a host of football rites and rituals. One of
the funniest and most insightful books ever written on football,
PAPER LION is a classic look at the gridiron game and a book The
Wall Street Journal calls "a continuous feast...The best book ever
about football--or anything!"
From the author of the bestselling The Catcher Was a Spy comes an exhilarating exploration of the performers, places, and experiences which form country music--a genre which is uniquely and authentically American. 40 photos.
From the Hardcover edition.
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