Matthew Goodman, Author . HarperCollins $29.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-052128-8
Jewish food is almost too huge a topic to be covered exhaustively, but Goodman, the "Food Maven" columnist at the Forward
, takes a decent stab at it by dividing his book into chapters on appetizers, soups, fish, eggs and dairy, poultry,...
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Matthew Goodman, Author . Basic $26 (350p) ISBN 978-0-465-00257-3
Goodman offers a highly atmospheric account of a hoax that he says reflects the birth of tabloid journalism and New York City’s emergence as a city with worldwide influence. In August 1835, New York Sun
editor Richard Adams Locke wrote and...
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Matthew Goodman. Ballantine, $28 (498p) ISBN 978-0-345-52726-4
Two pioneering women hurtle across the globe—and into a changing future—in this stimulating true-life adventure story. Historian Goodman (The Sun and the Moon) follows the 1889 voyages of Nellie Bly, a New York World reporter who embarked on a...
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Matthew Goodman. Ballantine, $29 (448p) ISBN 978-1-101-88283-2
Goodman (Eighty Days) effectively combines interviews and extensive research to definitively recreate the unfortunate story of the 1949–50 City College of New York basketball team, which won an unprecedented two college championships in the same...
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