Freedman - Biography & Memoir 1

Coming soon! The Rothschilds by Harry Freedman will be available Dec 08, 2026. 続きを見る

*Second Edition, with a new Introduction by Kelley McMasters When Samuel G. Freedman was nearing fifty, the same age at which his mother died of breast cancer, he realized that he did not know who s……続きを見る

From the day that Bobby Zimmerman first turned on the radio in his parents' home in Hibbing, he'd had a pretty good idea that big things were happening. When Bob Dylan arrived in New York one winter……続きを見る

**The Top Five Sunday Times Bestseller 'Excellent . . . persuasive . . . convincing' – The Times 'Funny, whipsmart and devastating. Sanity on steroids' – Emily Maitlis 'Fantastic. An exquisite analy……続きを見る

This revealing biography explores Indianapolis Colts' quarterback Peyton Manning as an athlete and as a man. From the moment Peyton Manning arrived in the National Football League at the start of th……続きを見る

When Gill Freedman and her husband Jeremy decided to move to a smallholding in rural Bedfordshire many of their friends and family thought they were mad. How could they leave behind the comforts of ……続きを見る

A powerful memoir, Karyn L. Freedman's One Hour in Paris is a harrowing yet inspirational journey through suffering and recovery both personal and global. On a Paris night in 1990 when Karyn L. Free……続きを見る

How did a young boy born into poverty become not only an international soccer star but a celebrity who visited and dined with kings and presidents? Where did the passion that fueled his success orig……続きを見る

"Get Your Tits Out for the Lads" is the story of one woman's journey into the masculine and rather enigmatic world of football. Since an early age, Sally Freedman dreamt of working in football and f……続きを見る

This the story of the seven baseball-playing Boyer brothers from western Missouri who signed professional contracts in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Led by oldest brother Cloyd, a pitcher, third basem……続きを見る

George Altman grew up in the segregated South but was able to participate in the sport at more levels of competition than perhaps anyone else who has ever played the game, from the 1940s to the 1970……続きを見る

Joe Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship longer than any other fighter and defended it a record 25 times. (In the 1930s and 1940s, the owner of the heavyweight title was the most prominent……続きを見る

Born into folk music's first family, Peggy Seeger has blazed her own trail artistically and personally. Jean Freedman draws on a wealth of research and conversations with Seeger to tell the life sto……続きを見る

An early celebrity pitcher, Denton "Cy" Young (1867-1955) established supreme standards on the mound. A small-town Ohio farmer made good, he set Major League pitching records in the late 19th and ea……続きを見る

Louis Jacobs was Britain's most gifted Jewish scholar. A Talmudic genius, outstanding teacher and accomplished author, cultured and easy-going, he was widely expected to become Britain's next Chief ……続きを見る

William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917) rose from humble origins in Iowa to become one of the most famous and most photographed people in the world. He became a leading scout during the American ……続きを見る

Paul Freedman’s gorgeously illustrated history is “an epic quest to locate the roots of American foodways and follow changing tastes through the decades, a search that takes [Freedman] straight to t……続きを見る

Nikki had never heard of Casablanca until the movie came out with Humphrey Bogart. She never dreamed that at the age of 22 she would be living there, much less involved in an intrigue. She felt very……続きを見る

Ernie Banks is perhaps the most popular ballplayer in the history of the Chicago Cubs--a man as famous for his personality and trademark phrases as for his accomplishments on the field. Nicknamed "M……続きを見る

Many years have passed since the author experienced the happenings of this book, yet the feelings remain vivid [and can serve to remind the introspective that life’s precious days can be filled with……続きを見る

***'Leonard Cohen taught us that even in the midst of darkness there is light, in the midst of hatred there is love, with our dying breath we can still sing Hallelujah.' - The late Rabbi Lord Jonath……続きを見る

Today, forty years after Timothy Leary's suggestion that hippies read Hermann Hesse while "turning on," Hesse is once again receiving attention: faced with ubiquitous materialism, war, and ecologica……続きを見る

James Freedman, the fifteenth president of Dartmouth College, began life in a struggling middle-class Jewish family in a provincial industrial New Hampshire town. By the time of his death from cance……続きを見る

In June of 1938, southpaw Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds became the only pitcher in Major League history to hurl two consecutive no-hitters--an achievement that has stood unsurpassed for ……続きを見る

From October 3 to November 28, 2012, noted artist Matt Freedman underwent radiation and chemotherapy at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, for treatment of adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare ca……続きを見る

A flame-throwing star with the Houston Astros, J. R. Richard was at the top of his profession when he inexplicably began complaining of arm weakness in 1980. Initially scoffed at because he continue……続きを見る