Fred Rosen, Author . Thunder's Mouth $26 (318p) ISBN 978-1-56025-680-9
Rosen, a former arts columnist for the New York Times
and true crime writer, is out of his element in this mundane history. He proposes that the American character is dominated by an unrestrained desire to get rich quick, an affliction directly...
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Fred Rosen, Author Thunder's Mouth Press $15.95 (284p) ISBN 978-1-56025-774-5
In this speculative true crime offering, author and part-time murder investigator Rosen tackles nine of history's most infamous court cases. He includes the 1865-69 case against Dr. Samuel Mudd, thought to have conspired with John Wilkes Booth in...
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Lavonne McKee, Author, Fred Rosen, Author, Ted Schwarz, With New Horizon $22.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-88282-079-8
In 1985, 14-year-old Dwayne McKee was shot by his 13-year-old friend Jeff Townsend in the affluent California town of Woodland Hills. According to Dwayne, the shooting was deliberate, a view espoused by his mother in her affecting recreation...
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Dorothy Proctor, Author, Fred Rosen, Author, Fred Rosen, Joint Author New Horizon $22.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-88282-099-6
Born to a prostitute mother and a ne'er-do-well father, the pseudonymous Proctor survived a childhood filled with sexual horrors almost from infancy (``I grew up thinking a penis was a teat''). She became a prostitute at 13, spent time in prison,...
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Frankie Saggio, Author, Fred Rosen, Author . Thunder's Mouth $14.95 (211p) ISBN 978-1-56025-559-8
The apparently insatiable public appetite for insider stories from the world of organized crime gives Saggio's dramatized third-person narrative, co-written with true-crime veteran Rosen (Lobster Boy
), a built-in audience, but don't expect...
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Fred Rosen, Author . Prometheus $25 (275p) ISBN 978-1-59102-136-0
This unusual piece of writing is equal parts social history and personal memoir. Rosen, a columnist for the New York Times
and author of Lobster Boy
, has gathered anthropological facts on the treatment of human remains in recorded history and goes
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Fred Rosen, Author St. Martin's Press $6.5 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-96810-6
Expanding on his 1997 Reader's Digest article, Rosen (former New York Times columnist) explores the lives of Mary Thompson and the teenage members of her Eugene, Ore., gang--the 74 Hoover Crips. Although seeming to be an anti-gang activist--as...
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