John Strausbaugh, Author . Verso $22 (259p) ISBN 978-1-85984-629-2
Clever, angry and articulate, New York Press
editor and longtime music critic Strausbaugh collects and expands his writings on "colostomy rock," 1960s-era rock music and its current milieu: "Rock simply should not be played by fifty-five
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John Strausbaugh, Author Blast Books $12.95 (223p) ISBN 978-0-922233-15-1
Strausbaugh, associate editor of New York Press and author of Alone with the President, turns his journalistic insights and pleasurable prose to the continued devotion of Elvis fans. He traces similarities between the nature, icons and lore of their
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John Strausbaugh, Author Virgin Books $16.95 (170p) ISBN 978-1-905264-16-2
New York Times contributing writer Strausbaugh (Black Like You) is fed up with the \x93sissies\x94 of America. His distaste for our growing culture of \x93fat, soft, stupid, fearful, whiny, infantile, narcissistic, fatalistic, group-thinking victims\
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John Strausbaugh. Ecco, $29.99, (640p) ISBN 978-0-06-207819-3
In this sprawling, crowded, biography on one of New York City's more alluring and storied neighborhoods, former New York Times commentator Strausbaugh traces the history of Greenwich Village from its beginning as bucolic countryside to its current...
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John Strausbaugh. Hachette/Twelve, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4555-8418-5
Strausbaugh follows 2013’s The Village, an encyclopedic history of New York City’s Greenwich Village, with an expert look at the city in the tumultuous years leading up to and through the Civil War. “New York City would play a huge role in the war,...
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John Strausbaugh. Twelve, $30 (496p) ISBN 978-1-4555-6748-5
From teenagers in zoot suits and bobby socks to New York–bred Soviet moles infiltrating the Manhattan Project and German U-boats lurking off the city’s shoreline, Strausbaugh (City of Sedition: A History of New York City during the Civil War)...
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John Strausbaugh. PublicAffairs, $30 (272p) ISBN 978-1-541-70334-6
This buzzy yet unbalanced account of the Soviet space race from historian Strausbaugh (Victory City) plays on the title of Tom Wolfe’s account of American astronauts, The Right Stuff. Strausbaugh opines that the Soviets—who launched the first man-mad
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