John Jeremiah Sullivan: 3 books
Pulphead
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011
A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction book of 2011
A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011
One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011
A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's...
The Prime Minister of Paradise
The True Story of a Lost American History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2022
The forgotten history of a colonial-era Utopia resonates to the present day in this epic of narrative nonfiction in the tradition of David Grann's The Lost City of Z and Rinker Buck's The Oregon Trail
In 1735, charismatic German lawyer and accused atheist Christian Gottlieb Priber fled Germany,...
Blood Horses
Notes of a Sportswriter's Son
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
One evening late in his life, veteran sportswriter Mike Sullivan was asked by his son what he remembered best from his three decades in the press box. The answer came as a surprise. "I was at Secretariat's Derby, in '73. That was . . . just beauty, you know?"
Sullivan didn't know,...