Larry Tye, Author . Holt $27.50 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6590-9
The new Jewish diaspora—of a "heterogeneous people who thrive in secular societies"—is here to stay, asserts Boston Globe
journalist Tye (The Father of Spin). As these diverse Jewish communities have become not merely way...
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Larry Tye, Author . Holt $26 (314p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7075-0
What have the poet Claude McKay, the filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, the explorer Matthew Henson, the musician "Big Bill" Broonzy and college president Benjamin Mays in common? They all worked for the Pullman Company, which until 1969 owned the...
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Larry Tye, Author . Random $26 (408p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6651-3
Tye, a Boston Globe
reporter and author of The Father of Spin
, offers the first biography on Satchel Paige, the premier pitcher of the Negro Leagues. Having interviewed more than 200 veteran fellow players of the Negro and Major Leagues, he is...
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Larry Tye, Author Crown Publishers $27.5 (320p) ISBN 978-0-517-70435-6
Dubbed the ""Prince of Puff"" and the ""Baron of Ballyhoo,"" Edward L. Bernays, who died in 1995 at the age of 103, was arguably the most influential publicist of the 20th century. The nephew of Sigmund Freud, Bernays brought an astute grasp of...
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Larry Tye. Random, $27 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6866-1
Tye offers this super-powered, well researched look into every aspect of the character in comics, radio, TV, films, and theater, muscling into such areas as insider editorial decisions, licensing, litigations, and mass comic book burnings. Following
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Larry Tye. Random House, $32 (608p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9334-9
It is difficult to envision anyone getting Robert F. Kennedy more right than biographer Tye (Satchel) does in this superb book. Tye beautifully captures Kennedy’s contradictions, his emergence from under the hard-to-like father to whom he remained...
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Larry Tye, read by Scott Brick. Random House Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 13 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-307-99010-5
In his latest, journalist Tye presents a comprehensive look at all things Superman, charting the history of the famed hero and detailing everything from his creation during the Great Depression by Jewish high school students Joe Shuster and Jerry...
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Larry Tye. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $36 (608p) ISBN 978-1-328-95972-0
Biographer Tye (Bobby Kennedy) delivers a sure-handed account of the rise and fall of Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy. Drawing from a previously unavailable archive of McCarthy’s “unscripted writings and correspondence,” Tye looks to correct...
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Larry Tye. Mariner, $32.50 (416p) ISBN 9780-3583-8043-6
Biographer Tye (Bobby Kennedy) presents a mesmerizing group portrait of American jazz greats Duke Ellington (1899–1974), Louis Armstrong (1901–1971), and Count Basie (1904–1984). Tracing each man’s influential career, Tye captures their intense work
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