Robert Weintraub: 6 books

Book cover of The Victory Season

The Victory Season

The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age

by Robert Weintraub
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013

**"Weintraub is a big-league storyteller .... He loads the bases with the kind of entertaining anecdotes, minutiae, and quotes that separate baseball-and baseball writing-from other sports." -- USA Today In the spring of 1946, Americans were ready to heal. The war was finally over,...
Book cover of The House That Ruth Built

The House That Ruth Built

A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923

by Robert Weintraub
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011

The untold story of Babe Ruth's Yankees, John McGraw's Giants, and the extraordinary baseball season of 1923 Before the 27 World Series titles--before Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Derek Jeter-the Yankees were New York's shadow franchise. They hadn't won a championship, and they didn't even...
Book cover of No Better Friend: Young Readers Edition

No Better Friend: Young Readers Edition

A Man, a Dog, and Their Incredible True Story of Friendship and Survival in World War II

by Robert Weintraub
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016

Discover an extraordinary tale of friendship and survival between a man and a dog in World War II in this young readers' adaptation of the New York Times bestseller No Better Friend. No Better Friend tells the incredible true story of Frank Williams, a radarman in Britain's Royal Air Force,...
Book cover of No Better Friend

No Better Friend

One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII

by Robert Weintraub
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015

The extraordinary tale of survival and friendship between a man and a dog in war Flight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of places: a World War II internment camp in the Pacific. Judy was a fiercely loyal dog, with a keen sense for who was friend...
Book cover of Jewish Men Pray

Jewish Men Pray

Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources

by Daniel S. Alexander, Alexandri, Bezalel Aloni
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013

A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day. "An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
Book cover of Tissue Economies

Tissue Economies

Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism

by Catherine Waldby, Robert Mitchell, Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006

As new medical technologies are developed, more and more human tissues—such as skin, bones, heart valves, embryos, and stem cell lines—are stored and distributed for therapeutic and research purposes. The accelerating circulation of human tissue fragments raises profound social and ethical concerns...
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