University Press Of New England: 148 books
Five Rings
The Super Bowl History of the New England Patriots (So Far)
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Since 2001 the Patriots have played in eight Super Bowl championships and won five, a run of excellence unparalleled in all of professional sports. In a league designed to ensure that no one franchise can dominate over time, New England won for over a decade and a half. A dynasty that began with an...
Shallow Graves
The Hunt for the New Bedford Highway Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Eleven women went missing over the spring and summer of 1988 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, an old fishing port known as the Whaling City, where Moby Dick, Frederick Douglass, textile mills, and heroin-dealing represent just a few of the many threads in the community’s diverse fabric. In Shallow...
In the Evil Day
Violence Comes to One Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
On the afternoon of August 19, 1997, John Harrigan—owner and publisher of the News and Sentinel newspaper in Colebrook, New Hampshire—arrived at his building to find the woman he loved lying dead in the parking lot. Lawyer Vickie Bunnell had been shot and killed by a local carpenter wielding an...
by Edna Edith Sayers
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Edna Edith Sayers has written the definitive biography of T. H. Gallaudet (1787–1851), celebrated today as the founder of deaf education in America. Sayers traces Gallaudet’s work in the fields of deaf education, free common schools, literacy, teacher education and certification, and children’s...
Meeting Tom Brady
One Man's Quest for Truth, Enlightenment, and a Simple Game of Catch with the Patriots Quarterback
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Imagine that you are an average American man. You work hard and love football. Your present is a highway of unbounded opportunity, your future a far horizon unclouded by doubt. Then comes middle age. Who can you look to when the highway begins to crack, when opportunity shrinks to the size of a cubicle,...
Victura
The Kennedys, a Sailboat, and the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
To truly understand the dynamics and magic of the Kennedy family, one must understand their passion for sailing and the sea. Many families sail together, but the Kennedys’ relationship with Victura, the 25-foot sloop purchased in 1932, stands apart. Throughout their brief lives, Joe Jr., Jack, and...
The Politics of Piracy
Crime and Civil Disobedience in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
The seventeenth-century war on piracy is remembered as a triumph for the English state and her Atlantic colonies. Yet it was piracy and illicit trade that drove a wedge between them, imperiling the American enterprise and bringing the colonies to the verge of rebellion. In The Politics of Piracy,...
Union Jack
JFK's Special Relationship with Great Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
John F. Kennedy carried on a lifelong love affair with England and the English. From his speaking style to his tastes in art, architecture, theater, music, and clothes, his personality reflected his deep affinity for a certain kind of idealized Englishness. In Union Jack, noted biographer Christopher...
The Return of the Moguls
How Jeff Bezos and John Henry Are Remaking Newspapers for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The Return of the Moguls chronicles an important story in the making, one that will affect more than just the newspaper business—it has the power to change democracy as we know it. Over the course of a generation, the story of the daily newspaper has been an unchecked slide from record profitability...
A Few Planes for China
The Birth of the Flying Tigers
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
On December 7, 1941, the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into armed conflict with Japan. In the following months, the Japanese seemed unbeatable as they seized American, British, and European territory across the Pacific: the Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Dutch East...
That’s Gotta Hurt
The Injuries That Changed Sports Forever
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
In That’s Gotta Hurt, the orthopaedist David Geier shows how sports medicine has had a greater impact on the sports we watch and play than any technique or concept in coaching or training. Injuries among professional and college athletes have forced orthopaedic surgeons and other healthcare providers...
Operation Whisper
The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Meet Morris and Lona Cohen, an ordinary-seeming couple living on a teacher’s salary in a nondescript building on the East Side of New York City. On a hot afternoon in the autumn of 1950, a trusted colleague knocked at their door, held up a finger for silence, then began scribbling a note: Go now....
Wilde Times
Patricia Wilde, George Balanchine, and the Rise of New York City Ballet
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
At eighty-seven, Patricia Wilde remains a grande dame of the ballet world. As a young star she toured America in the company of the Ballet Russe. In her heyday in the 1950s and ’60s, she was a first-generation member and principal dancer of New York City Ballet during the uniquely dramatic Balanchine...
Nathan Hale
The Life and Death of America's First Spy
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Although famous for his purported last words—“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”—few people know the real Nathan Hale. M. William Phelps brings into focus the life of this famed patriot and first spy of the American Revolution, charting Hale’s rural childhood,...