Rich Cohen

The author of Sweet and Low presents a historical profile of Samuel Zemurray that traces his rise from a penniless youth to one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men, offering insight into his capitalist talents and the ways in which his life reflected the best and worst of American business dealings.

The Life and Times of America's Banana King

The Fish That Ate the Whale

Rich Cohen enters the Stones epic as a young journalist on the road with the band and quickly falls under their sway—privy to the jokes, the camaraderie, the bitchiness, the hard living. Inspired by a lifelong appreciation of the music that borders on obsession, Cohen’s chronicle of the band is informed by the rigorous views of a kid who grew up on the music and for whom the Stones will always be the greatest rock ’n’ roll band of all time.

The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones

Herbie

Examines the Jewish underworld in New York City, tracing its roots to working class families in the early 1900s

Tough Jews

Documents the story of underworld legend Albert Hicks, chronicling his mid-nineteenth-century crime spree and the plot gone wrong that culminated in an onboard massacre and manhunt in 1860 Coney Island.

A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation

The Last Pirate of New York

"A riveting account of the 1985 Chicago Bears and the author's personal relationship with the football team"--

Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football

A captivating blend of reportage and memoir exploring the history of the Chicago Cubs When Rich Cohen was eight years old, his father took him to see a Cubs game. On the way out of the park, his father asked him to make a promise. “Promise me you will never be a Cubs fan. The Cubs do not win,” he explained, “and because of that, a Cubs fan will have a diminished life determined by low expectations. That team will screw up your life.” As a result, Cohen became not just a Cubs fan but one of the biggest Cubs fans in the world. In this book, he captures the story of the team, its players and crazy days. Billy Sunday and Ernie Banks, Three Finger Brown and Ryne Sandberg, Bill Buckner, the Bartman Ball, Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo—the early dominance followed by a 107 year trek across the wilderness. It’s all here—not just what happened, but what it felt like and what it meant. He searches for the cause of the famous curse. Was it the billy goat, kicked out of Wrigley Field in Game 5 of the 1945 World Series, or does it go back further, to the very origins of the franchise? Driven mad with futility, he went on the road with the team in search of answers, interviewed great players present and past, researched in libraries but also in the bleachers, double-fisted, a frosty malt in each hand, demanding answers. He came to see the curse as a burden but also as a blessing. Cubs fans are unique, emissaries from a higher realm, warning of hubris and vanity. The blue cap with the red C said, “My Kingdom is not of this world.” He interviewed the architects of the 2016 Cubs, the team that broke the curse. Here’s what he asked: How the hell did you do it? He was at (almost) every game of the 2016 playoff run—a run that culminated in (maybe) the single greatest baseball game ever played. He was excited but also terrified. Losing is easy. What would it mean to win? Wearing a Yankees hat meant corporate excellence. Wearing a Mets hat meant miracles. But wearing a Cubs hat meant loving the game on its most humdrum afternoon—September 13, 1979, say, 14 games out of first place, Larry Bittner driving in Ivan DeJesus. Would we lose that? Would being a Cubs become ordinary? A mix of memoir, reporting, history and baseball theology, this book, forty years in the making, has never been written because it never could be—only with the 2016 World Series can the true arc of the story finally be understood.

Story of a Curse

The Chicago Cubs

The Avengers

Traces the story of the creator of the sugar packet and Sweet'N Low, documenting how he converted his Brooklyn cafeteria into a factory and amassed a considerable fortune that would eventually destroy his family, in a portrait that places his life against a backdrop of post-World War II immigration and the late-twentieth century's health and diet craze.

A Family Story

Sweet and Low

Murder in the Dollhouse 

World's Greatest Negotiator

Adventures of Herbie Cohen

Um novo mergulho na vida dos Rolling Stones através da lente apaixonada e crítica de um dos criadores da série Vinyl, da HBO Rich Cohen embarca na trajetória épica dos Rolling Stones como um jovem repórter que vai para a estrada com a banda nos anos 1990 compartilhando as piadas, a amizade e a convivência difícil. Inspirada por um amor que beira a obsessão, a biografia da banda feita pelo premiado jornalista é conduzida pela visão rigorosa de alguém que cresceu na música e para quem os Stones sempre serão a maior banda de rock de todos os tempos. A história começa no início: o encontro predestinado de Mick Jagger e Keith Richards em uma plataforma de trem em 1961; e parte daí para as décadas seguintes, com especial atenção ao que Cohen chama de período de ouro – de Beggars Banquet (1968) a Exile on Main Street (1972) –, quando os Stones estiveram no auge de sua força criativa. O talento de Cohen ilumina os pontos baixos tão bem quanto os altos, mergulhando nos momentos que não apenas definiram os Stones como músicos talentosos formados no blues – e, possivelmente, os compositores mais inovadores de sua geração –, mas também como símbolos inquebrantáveis de muitos aspectos de nossa cultura. "Diga-me você. Eu não sei. Como é viver em um mundo no qual os Stones sempre existiram? Para você, sempre houve o sol e a lua e os Rolling Stones." Keith Richards *** "Na lista seleta dos livros que realmente valem a pena sobre os Stones. Recheado de insights." San Francisco Chronicle "Uma abordagem nova e atual. Cohen narra momentos fascinantes do tempo que passou junto com o grupo em turnê." Rolling Stone "Fabuloso. As entrevistas feitas por Cohen conseguem produzir novas cores para o mito dos Stones." The Wall Street Journal "É excepcional que Cohen consiga contar a história dos Stones em pouco menos de quatrocentas páginas. Sua familiaridade com Jagger, Richards, Charlie Watts permite um realismo que o grupo sempre rechaçou." Pitchfork

Uma biografia

O sol & a lua & os Rolling Stones

The NBAs Greatest Season

When the Game Was War

The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones

De zon en de maan en de Rolling Stones

From Hither to Yon

Confessions of a Hockey Parent

Pee Wees

Murder Inc. Oder Nicht ganz koschere Geschäfte in Brooklyn.

Every Year, When people are ""winter weary and longing for spring"" Purim comes and its time for play-time for the annual Purim play that is.

A bittersweet memoir of friendship describes growing up on the Great Lakes in an affluent suburb on the north shore of Chicago and the unforgettable relationship forged in adolescence that shaped and transformed his life and reexamines that friendship from the perspective of adulthood. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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