The Catcher Was a Spy
Autor Nicholas Dawidoffen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 mai 1995
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780679762898
ISBN-10: 0679762892
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 131 x 203 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 0679762892
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 131 x 203 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Notă biografică
Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of five books. One of them, The Fly Swatter, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and another, In the Country of Country, was named one of the greatest all-time works of travel literature by Conde Nast Traveller. His first book, The Catcher Was A Spy: The Mysterious Life Of Moe Berg was a national bestseller and appeared on many 1994 best book lists. In 2009, Pantheon published The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness and Baseball. He is also the editor of the Library of America’s Baseball: A Literary Anthology. A graduate of Harvard University, he has been a Guggenheim, Civitella Ranieri and Berlin Prize Fellow, and is a contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and the American Scholar.
Descriere
The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA, Moe Berg has the singular distinction of having both a 15-year career as a catcher for such teams as the New York Robins and the Chicago White Sox and that of a spy for the OSS during World War II. Here, Dawidoff provides "a careful and sympathetic biography" (Chicago Sun-Times) of this enigmatic man. Photos.