Vernona Gomez and Lawrence Goldstone. Ballantine, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-0-345-52648-9
Vernon “Lefty” Gomez was a stalwart pitcher for the dominant New York Yankee teams of the 1930s. The son of an illiterate rancher from rural California adapted quickly to the city and was “named to New York’s best-dressed list” within two years of...
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Lawrence Goldstone, Author . Walker $24 (230p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1460-2
This superficial account advances the unoriginal thesis that "sectionalism and slavery are key to understanding" the Constitutional Convention. Goldstone (The Friar and the Cipher
) recreates the convention, focusing in particular on four...
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Lawrence Goldstone, Author . Delacorte $24 (342p) ISBN 978-0-385-34134-9
Goldstone, an acclaimed popular historian (Out of the Flames
; The Friar and the Cipher
), marks out new terrain with his compelling fiction debut, a medical thriller set in 1889 Philadelphia. The narrator, Ephraim Carroll, a young, idealistic and...
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Lawrence Goldstone, Author . Walker $25 (294p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1488-6
The author's voice is never far from the surface in this sprightly study of the circumstances surrounding the Supreme Court's epochal 1803 decision in Marbury
v. Madison
that declared an act of Congress unconstitutional. Chief Justice...
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Lawrence Goldstone, Author . Walker $24 (293p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1986-7
Set in 1534, Goldstone's uneven novel of historical suspense, his second after The Anatomy of Deception
, finds the Inquisition taking corrective measures against the unremitting attacks on Catholic orthodoxy: namely the rack, the stake, and...
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Lawrence Goldstone, Walker, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1792-4
In this comprehensive and remarkably lucid study of post–Civil War Supreme Court decisions, Goldstone (The Activist) shows how the court's narrow interpretation of the 14th amendment—bestowing "equal protection under the law" to all Americans,...
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Lawrence Goldstone, Author Permanent Press (NY) $22 (268p) ISBN 978-1-877946-13-4
Racial politics, ethnic hatreds, crime and crack tear apart the multihued fabric of New York City in this hardboiled first novel, which reads more like straight reportage than like satire or fiction. Black activist lawyer Herbert Whiffet, self-appoin
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Lawrence Goldstone, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-18641-8
Smug, middle-age cop Phil Gagliardi seems to have all the answers when he's called in to investigate the death of 31-year-old computer company executive Glynnis S. Rodman in Goldstone's (Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World) pedestrian, comic-boo
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Lawrence Goldstone. Ballantine, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-0-345-53803-1
Goldstone (Lefty: An American Odyssey) delivers a riveting narrative about the pioneering era of aeronautics in America and beyond, centering on the intense rivalry between Wilbur and Orville Wright and Glenn Hammond Curtiss. At the dawn of the 20th
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Lawrence Goldstone, Author, Goldstone, Author, Nancy Goldstone, Joint Author Thomas Dunne Books $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-20587-4
Having introduced a friend to the pricey pleasures of book collecting, the Goldstones--novelists and book collectors whose bibliomaniacal exploits were first chronicled in Used and Rare (1998)--stumble on a copy of the Virginia Woolf-Lytton Strachey
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The Goldstones, a husband-and-wife book collecting/writing team, follow two previous memoirs about their occupational adventures (Used and Rare, 1997; Slightly Chipped, 1999) with this entertaining offering. The title chapter recounts the saga of...
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OUT OF THE FLAMES: The Remarkable Story of Michael Servetus and One of the Rarest Books in the World
Lawrence Goldstone, Author, Nancy Goldstone, Author, Nancy Goldstone, Joint Author . Broadway $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7679-0836-8
When Michael Servetus was burned at the stake for heresy in 1553, he had spent much of his life running from the Church. Born into a noble Spanish family, he studied medicine and the humanities extensively. By age 20, he had written a treatise on...
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Lawrence Goldstone, Author, Nancy Goldstone, Author, Nancy Lawrence, With St. Martin's Press $22.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-15682-4
What begins as a search for a hardcover copy of War and Peace becomes for the authors a journey into the world of used and rare books. Well ensconced as ex-Manhattanites living in the Berkshires, the Goldstones discover that they possess the...
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Nancy Goldstone, Author, Lawrence Goldstone, Author . Doubleday $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7679-1473-4
The Goldstones, bibliophiles and authors of Out of the Flames
and other books, offer a witty biography of controversial 13th-century Dominican friar Roger Bacon, whose Opus Majus
"presented a way of thinking, of approaching science, that is...
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Nancy Goldstone, Author, Lawrence Goldstone, Author Ballantine Books $13.95 (206p) ISBN 978-0-8129-7028-9
The benefits of learning to understand rich, layered narratives extend ""far beyond the scope of fiction,"" say the authors, who lead a renowned book group for children and their parents at their small town library and who have written several other
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Lawrence Goldstone. Little, Brown, $18.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-316-35023-5
In prose as riveting as the developments it investigates, Goldstone (Drive!) covers the history of early aviation up to 1915 in his first book for young readers. After grabbing attention with the crowd-thrilling stunts of Lincoln Beachey, “the...
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Lawrence Goldstone. Pegasus, $27.95 (378p) ISBN 978-1-68177-429-9
In this delightful biography, John Holland (1841–1914), the little-remembered inventor of the military submarine, receives a well-deserved publicity boost from historian Goldstone (Drive! Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto...
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Lawrence Goldstone. Pegasus Crime, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-68177-552-4
Set in New York City in 1899, this exceptional thriller from Goldstone (Anatomy of Deception) exposes the underside of American medicine at that time. Dr. Noah Whitestone is about to visit some patients from his Brooklyn practice when a neighbor,...
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Lawrence Goldstone. Pegasus Crime, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-64313-130-6
What if President McKinley’s assassination in 1901 was not just the work of a lone nut? That’s the premise of this outstanding thriller from Goldstone (The Anatomy of Deception). After anarchist Leon Czolgosz manages to get close enough to McKinley...
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Lawrence Goldstone. Scholastic Focus, $18.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-338-32348-1
In clear, vivid language, this timely volume recounts the layered history of African-American voting rights, from the 1787 Constitutional Convention to Georgia’s 2018 block against voter registration for 53,000 residents, the majority of whom were...
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Lawrence Goldstone. Counterpoint, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-64009-392-8
The 1965 Voting Rights Act guaranteeing African-Americans “equal access to the ballot” was necessitated by post–Civil War U.S. Supreme Court decisions that allowed “white supremacist” state governments in the South to deny blacks their...
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