Daniel Okrent, Author . Viking $29.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-670-03169-6
Just as Okrent's Nine Innings beautifully telescoped all of baseball into a single game in 1982 between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Baltimore Orioles, so the former Life editor and Time Inc. executive finds in the creation of Rockefeller...
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Daniel Okrent, Author . Simon & Schuster $35 (468p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7702-0
Daniel Okrent has proven to be one of our most interesting and eclectic writers of nonfiction over the past 25 years, producing books about the history of Rockefeller Center and New England, baseball, and his experience as the first public editor...
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Daniel Okrent, Author PublicAffairs $22 (291p) ISBN 978-1-58648-400-2
If ever a job was to serve as a vortex of contempt-social, political, intellectual, professional, grammatical and sometimes just plain nonsensical-it's the ombudsman at The New York Times. Established in the wake of the Jayson Blair fiasco and the...
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Daniel Okrent, read by the author, Simon & Schuster Audio, abridged, eight CDs, 10 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-0-74-359921-4
In narrating his social and political chronicle of the 18th Amendment, Okrent competently brings a divergent host of characters—both “wet” and “dry”—to life including Mabel Walker Willebrandt, a trailblazing female attorney, law enforcement official,
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Daniel Okrent, Author, Steve Wuif, Author, Steve Wulf, With Oxford University Press, USA $45 (368p) ISBN 978-0-19-504396-9
This history of baseball in anecdotal form contains many familiar stories, but many more that will be new to fans. Okrent ( The Ultimate Baseball Book ; Nine Innings ) and Wulf, senior editor for baseball at Sports Illustrated , recount such tales...
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Daniel Okrent, Author, Steve Wulf, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12 (356p) ISBN 978-0-06-097299-8
``This history of baseball in anecdotal form contains many familiar stories, but many more that will be new to fans,'' wrote PW. ``The book is fun to read, especially when consumed piecemeal.'' (Feb.)
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Daniel Okrent. Scribner, $30 (528p) ISBN 978-1-4767-9803-5
As journalist and popular historian Okrent (Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center) shows in this engrossing book, the American eugenics movement demonized not only people of non-European descent but also the inhabitants of southern and...
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