Books by Michael Schumacher and Complete Book Reviews

Michael Schumacher, Author . Bloomsbury $24.95 (243p) ISBN 978-1-58234-647-2
In honor of the 30th anniversary of the sinking of the Great Lakes ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald , an event given lasting fame by singer Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, " Schumacher recreates both the ship's...
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Michael Schumacher, Author . Bloomsbury $24.95 (317p) ISBN 978-1-59691-213-7
Schumacher (Family Business ) explores the on-court life and legacy of George Mikan, the big man who revolutionized both college and professional basketball as a dominant center in the '40s and '50s and as the American Basketball...
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Michael Schumacher, Author Bloomsbury $25 (245p) ISBN 978-1-59691-484-1
Great Lakes historian Schumacher (Mighty Fitz: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald ) profiles another nautical tragedy. The Carl D. Bradley , a 638-foot limestone carrier, sank to Lake Michigan’s cold bottom 50 years ago this November. Known as
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Michael Schumacher, Bloomsbury, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-1-60819-013-3
An iconic figure in the world of comics, Will Eisner has stellar achievements worthy of the reverence shown by Schumacher (Wreck of the Carl D.). Fortified by intimate interviews, Schumacher's work shows an outsider during a Depression-era childhood,
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Michael Schumacher. Univ. of Minnesota, $34.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-8166-9289-7
Drawing largely from oral histories and papers of the major candidates, Schumacher, author of biographies of Eric Clapton, Francis Ford Coppola, and Allen Ginsberg, delivers a straightforward account of how the candidates in the 1968 American...
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Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen. Bloomsbury, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-1-60819-623-4
Al Capp created one of the most successful comic strips of all time in Li'l Abner. The high school dropout was a "first-rate storyteller, comic strip artist, humorist,... [and] occasional liar" who conned his way into art schools and saw Li'l Abner...
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Matthew A. Schumacher, Author, Michael Schumacher, Author Hyperion Books $24.45 (387p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6074-6
Schumacher (Dharma Lion: The Biography of Allen Ginsberg) here chronicles the life and career of the reclusive British blues performer. Brought up by his grandparents after his unwed mother deserted him, Clapton taught himself to play the guitar and
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Matthew A. Schumacher, Author, Michael Schumacher, Author Hyperion Books $24.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6084-5
In folk singer Phil Ochs (1940-1976), the 1960s had the perfect tragic hero for a tumultuous era. Though a gifted songwriter and tireless antiwar and civil rights activist, Ochs suffered a running battle with manic depression that ruined his career...
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Matthew A. Schumacher, Author, Michael Schumacher, Author Hyperion Books $14.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7868-8166-6
Biography covering the often tragic life of the legendary blues guitarist. (Sept.)
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Michael Shumacher, Author, Michael Schumacher, Author St. Martin's Press $8.95 (269p) ISBN 978-0-312-01811-5
Freelance journalist Schumacher here gathers interviews with America's trendiest literati, recording 18 ``conversations'' with authors, editors and publishers. Seymour Lawrence, Gordon Lish, Jay McInerney et al. share their insights and concerns...
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Michael Schumacher, Author Crown Publishers $30 (544p) ISBN 978-0-517-70445-5
This is not an authorized biography, though it often reads like one because Schumacher systematically defends director and screenwriter Coppola against the critics who have panned his films as contrived, excessively violent or a triumph of style...
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Michael Schumacher, Author, Matthew A. Schumacher, Author St. Martin's Press $35 (769p) ISBN 978-0-312-08179-9
Allen Ginsberg, choreographer of the Beat movement, ambassador of the counterculture and great communicator of several hip generations, attracts attention that crosses natural, generational, sexual and literary boundaries. In this in-depth biography,
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Michael Schumacher. Univ. of Minnesota, $24.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-517-91284-0
Historian Schumacher (The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald) recounts the shipwrecks and storms of Lake Superior in this animated and elegiac study. Much of the book centers around events near Minnesota’s North Shore (near Duluth) and Michigan’s Isle...
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