Jimmy Breslin: 16 books
Collected Nonfiction
How the Good Guys Finally Won, The World According to Breslin, and The World of Jimmy Breslin
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Colorful, riveting reportage from a one-of-a-kind Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New York Times–bestselling author.
In his career as a legendary New York City newspaper columnist, Jimmy Breslin “leveled the powerful and elevated the powerless for more than fifty years with brick-hard...
by Jimmy Breslin
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist’s early columns “peopled by some of the funniest, looniest and saddest characters anywhere outside of a zoo” (The New York Times).
In the 1960s, as the once-proud New York Herald Tribune spiraled into bankruptcy, the brightest light in its pages...
by Jimmy Breslin
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2004
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jimmy Breslin has established himself as one of America's most distinctively Catholic voices. We have also come to know Breslin as the cocky guy from Queens, New York, who speaks insolently to powerful people and institutions, his words always tinged with a healthy...
by Jimmy Breslin
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Classic columns from the legendary New York journalist—“a master of the tough-talking, thoroughly researched, contentious, street-wise vignette” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Although his career spans decades, the seven years that Jimmy Breslin spent at the New York**Daily News sparked...
The Novels of Jimmy Breslin
World Without End, Amen; The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight; Table Money; and Forsaking All Others
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Tough, funny, moving fiction from the New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist.
Jimmy Breslin was not only “the biggest, the baddest, the brashest, the best columnist in New York City,” he was also an outstanding New York Times–bestselling novelist, equally...
The Good Rat
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In his inimitable New York voice, Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin gives us a look through the keyhole at the people and places that define the Mafia—characters like John Gotti, Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso (named for his weapon of choice), and Jimmy "the Clam" Eppolito—interwoven...
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year
The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Jimmy Breslin’s nostalgic, rollicking look back at the worst baseball team in history
Five years after the Dodgers and Giants fled New York for California, the city’s National League fans were offered salvation in the shape of the New York Mets: an expansion team who, in the spring of 1962,...
Branch Rickey
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
The book that inspired Harrison Ford in his portrayal of Branch Rickey in the hit movie “42”
The idea of integrating baseball began as a dream in the mind of Branch Rickey. In 1947, as president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he defied racism on and off the field to bring...
Sunny Jim
The Life of America's Most Beloved Horseman, James Fitzsimmons
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
An evocative portrait of the Triple Crown–winning racehorse trainer: “sportswriting as good as it could ever possibly be” (New York Daily News).
At seventy-seven, James “Sunny Jim” Fitzsimmons should have been considering retirement. His six-decade career stretched back...
World Without End, Amen
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Adrift in New York, an alcoholic cop searches for meaning in his life by revisiting his past
The department has taken away Dermot Davey’s gun. After countless incidents of excessive force and on-the-job drunkenness, and one harrowing moment where he nearly killed a civilian, the New York...
Table Money
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
As a city worker and former war hero tumbles into alcoholism, his wife fights to hold on to her newfound freedom
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Owney Morrison has walked the catacombs underneath New York City since he was eleven. His father was a sandhog—a tunnel worker—and the first to introduce him to...
by Jimmy Breslin
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
A madcap novel of the sloppiest turf war ever launched by the Brooklyn mob
Kid Sally Palumbo has been a loyal servant to the Brooklyn Mafia for years. His specialty is murder, and he is so skilled at it that he has gotten the attention of Mafia boss Papa Baccala. But unfortunately for Kid Sally,...
How the Good Guys Finally Won
Notes from an Impeachment Summer
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
New York Times Bestseller: A “superb” blow-by-blow account of how Tip O’Neill and his colleagues impeached Richard Nixon after Watergate (Chicago Tribune).
Not long after burglars were caught raiding the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel, Congressman Tip...
Forsaking All Others
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
A novel of crime and passion in the South Bronx by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight and The Good Rat.
The Department of Corrections makes a mistake when it grants parole to a young Puerto Rican man named Teenager. After a few years in jail for...
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