Laurence Bergreen, Author . Morrow $27.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-621173-2
Journalist Bergreen, who has penned biographies of James Agee, Louis Armstrong, Irving Berlin and Al Capone, superbly recreates Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan's obsessive 16th-century quest, an ill-fated journey that altered Europe's
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Laurence Bergreen, Author . Knopf $27.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4345-3
Even in his own day, the famed 13th-century travel writer Marco Polo was mocked as a purveyor of tall tales—gem-encrusted clothes, nude temple dancing girls, screaming tarantulas—in his narrative of his journey to the Chinese court of...
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Laurence Bergreen, Author Simon & Schuster $21 (704p) ISBN 978-0-684-82447-5
Biography of the legendary prohibition-era gangster. (Aug.)
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Laurence Bergreen, Author Broadway Books $30 (576p) ISBN 978-0-553-06768-2
Bergreen, who has published studies of James Agee, Irving Berlin and Al Capone, comments here, ""This is the first biography I have written in which my opinion of my subject kept improving as I worked."" This strong admiration for the great jazz...
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Laurence Bergreen, Author Simon & Schuster $30 (704p) ISBN 978-0-671-74456-4
In 1925, at the age of 26, Al Capone became the most powerful, most visible racketeer in Prohibition-era Chicago. Bergreen ( As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin ) has done a prodigious amount of research. He traces Capone's childhood in...
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Laurence Bergreen, Author Penguin Books $15.95 (672p) ISBN 978-0-14-010398-4
``Alexander's Ragtime Band,'' ``God Bless America'' and ``White Christmas'' are among some 1500 songs written by Berlin, a Hollywood tycoon who remained reclusive and insecure despite his popularity. ``Berlin's story, richly and skillfully told here,
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Laurence Bergreen, Author Viking Books $24.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-670-81874-7
The man Jerome Kern said was American music wrote 1500 songs (a list is included), had an unerring insight into popular taste, graduated with meteoric swiftness from singing for pennies in Manhattan's unsavory Lower East Side saloons to Broadway and
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Laurence Bergreen. Viking, $35 (448p) ISBN 978-0-670-02301-1
Columbus’s first voyage to the New World was one of the formative events of human history. But who was Christopher Columbus? Renowned historian and biographer Bergreen (Marco Polo) seeks to illuminate the complex motivations and historical...
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Laurence Bergreen. Simon & Schuster, $32.50 (672p) ISBN 978-1-4767-1649-7
In this overstuffed, occasionally compelling, but ultimately lackluster recounting of the famed libertine’s life, Bergreen (Columbus: The Four Voyages) gives much detail but little insight into the experiences of the man whose name became shorthand...
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Lawrence Bergreen, Author, Laurence Bergreen, Author Riverhead Books $27.95 (355p) ISBN 978-1-57322-166-5
This volume would seem to have all the right ingredients: Bergreen's considerable biographical skills (Louis Armstrong, Capone, James Agee, etc.) applied to the epic tale of NASA's search for life on other worldsDMars in particularDthrough the eyes...
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