Ezell Ware, Jr., Author, Joel Engel, Author, Jr. (Ca Ret ). Ware, Author . Dutton $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-94861-2
A self-proclaimed military "lifer" and one of the few black pilots with the army's 61st Helicopter Assault Company, retired California National Guard General Ware Jr. has an intriguing story to tell, and with journalist Engel he has...
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Clarence B. Jones, Author, Joel Engel, Author . Harper $23.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-06-125320-1
“I was privy to his innermost thoughts,” Jones, draft speech writer and adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., assures us in this bold yet presumptuous endeavor to reveal “what [King] would have to say, and what he would advise, on...
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Morris had an astounding fastball and seemed destined to pitch for a major league team, yet his career was doomed from the start. He was drafted by the Brewers, but went from their training camp back to the farm system. He developed injuries that...
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Joel Engel, Author Tor Books $15.95 (174p) ISBN 978-0-312-93145-2
In these ``war stories'' there is a depressing sameness to the narratives of 10 teenage drug abusers who describe the progress of their addictions. The interviews, conducted by Engel ( It's O.K. to Grow Up ) at various rehabilitation services...
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Joel Engel, Author Hyperion Books $22.45 (283p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6004-3
According to Engel ( Rod Serling ), Roddenberry, who died in 1991, is a seminal figure of our time (``His indirect impact on aspects of popular culture . . . has been eclipsed, arguably, only by Elvis Presley''), creator of one of the most enduring...
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Joel Engel, Author Hyperion Books $12.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7868-8088-1
Engel (Rod Serling) reveals the darker side of the man who created one of television's cult classics, with commentary from such notables as Leonard Nimoy. (June)
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Joel Engel. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-59194-6
Engel, a former New York Times and L.A. Times reporter (What Would Martin Say?), has expanded the concept of “the wrong man” in his blistering true crime book of a serial rapist’s reign of terror in the Jim Crow Los Angeles of the mid–late 1950s. In
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Joel Engel, Author, John Ratzenberger, Author . Hachette/Center Street $23.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-931722-84-1
Despite his résumé as an actor (Cheers
, Superman
, The
Empire Strikes Back
), Ratzenberger sees himself as a blue-collar everyman and identifies more closely with the factory workers he interviews on his Travel Channel cable TV show,...
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