Leonard Kriegel
By Leonard Kriegel
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News Howard Cosell Recalled: Icon and Irrritant
Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports By Mark Ribowsky W.W. Norton & Company, 496 pages, $29.95 ‘I’ve gotta use words when I talk to you,” Apeneck Sweeney says to his girlfriend, Doris, in T.S. Eliot’s “Sweeney Agonistes.” Sweeney had it right. Words transform reality by making it both more…
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Culture Hank Greenberg, Reluctant Jewish Hero
Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn’t Want To Be One By Mark Kurlansky Yale University Press, 192 pages, $25 If America truly is in decline, then some of us would ascribe that decline to the cultural euthanasia that made football and basketball more popular than baseball. For my generation of urban children of immigrant Jews,…
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Culture A Eulogy for New York
Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan By Phillip Lopate Crown Publishers, 422 pages, $25.95. ——– Writers love New York not for what it is, but for what it is in the writer’s imagination. Not even Paris intrigues us the way New York does, which is one of the reasons that the New York writer has become…
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News Brownsville Striker: Rescuing the Reputation of a Jewish Fighter
Bummy Davis vs. Murder, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mafia and an Ill-Fated Prizefighter By Ron Ross St. Martin’s Press, 418 pages, $26.95. * * *| All ethnic groups invariably must pay the price of the respectability they seek, a price that grows greater as the past recedes. Ron Ross’s “Bummy Davis…
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News A Literary Legend Spares Nothing in His Latest Memoir
First Loves: A Memoir By Ted Solotaroff Seven Stories Press, 299 pages, $24.95. * * *| Memoir demands the writer be committed to the truth about himself and the truth about others and, though all are ego-driven, the best reflect not merely the author’s life but the world that endowed that life. In his 1998…
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