Rich Cohen, Author . Knopf $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-41132-8
When Cohen's family lived in Libertyville, Ill., they were the only Jews in the town, but that was fine with their neighbors, who said, "Thank God, we were afraid they would sell to Catholics." This anecdote illuminates the ever-shifting
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Rich Cohen, Author . Norton/Atlas $22.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-393-05280-0
In a postscript to his dynamic history of Chess Records, Cohen (Tough Jews
) confesses that its tale is one he's been telling since adolescence, "using whatever was at hand to make the case: not only does this song rock, it also has...
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Rich Cohen, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-27229-6
Disinherited from the family fortune built by his maternal grandfather, Ben Eisenstadt, who invented the artificial sweetener Sweet'N Low, Cohen mines a wealth of family history in this funny, angry, digressive memoir. Ben worked as a short-order
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Rich Cohen, Author . Farrar, Straux & Giroux $26 (383p) ISBN 978-0-374-17778-2
Reading the Bible and Jewish history “both literally and symbolically,” this eclectic and passionate, wide-ranging history of Israel and Zionism by the author of Tough Jews
decodes the story of Jonah in the whale's belly as the...
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Rich Cohen, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-40546-4
As a child visiting an Israeli kibbutz on a family vacation, Cohen met a relative who had survived the Holocaust and emigrated to Israel. Slight and gray-haired, Ruzka looked a lot like Cohen's grandmother, but her stories introduced him to a little-
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Rich Cohen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-29927-9
Cohen provides a boatload of angles for his biography of little-known antihero, Samuel Zemurray (1877-1961), presenting his story as a parable of American capitalism, an example of the American dream in decline, the story of 20th-century America, a...
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Rich Cohen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-29868-5
Almost 30 years after the Chicago Bears won their first and only Super Bowl, that team with its wild assortment of tough players and coaches still capture the imagination—and fuel the current fantasies—of Chicago's die-hard football fans. Cohen, (The
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Rich Cohen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-12092-4
Cohen (Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football) offers an energetic account of the drought between the Chicago Cubs’ 1908 World Series win and their incredible triumph in 2016. He nicely details the team’s ups and downs over...
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Rich Cohen, Author, Rich Cohen, Read by , read by the author. Audio Renaissance $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59397-889-1
Cohen's grandfather, Benjamin Eisenstadt, created the artificial sweetener saccharine and modified a tea-bagging machine to produce individual, sanitary packets of sugar substitute, calling it Sweet 'N Low. Cohen expands the story beyond the
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Rich Cohen. Spiegel & Grau, $28 (256p) ISBN 978-0-399-58992-8
Cohen (Sweet and Low), a self-declared aficionado of gangster stories, delivers a doozy of a tale that no fan of true crime will be able to put down. In 1860, near New York harbor, a ghost sloop, adrift and unmanned, appeared out of the fog, awash...
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Rich Cohen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (240p) ISBN 978-0-37426-801-5
Memoirist Cohen (Sweet and Low) scores with this heartfelt account of watching—and agonizing over—his 11-year-old son’s season playing kids’ competitive hockey. Starting with April tryouts and ending with a soul-churning state tournament in March,...
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Rich Cohen. Farar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-16961-9
A deal-making guru bargains with the world in this wry and affectionate biography. Journalist and editor Cohen (Sweet and Low) profiles his father, Herb Cohen, author of the bestselling business self-help title You Can Negotiate Anything, an adviser
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Rich Cohen. Random House, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-22954-5
The “incredible pool of talent” on display in the NBA’s 1987–1988 season makes it the league’s best to date, according to this exhilarating account. Focusing on how Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and Isiah Thomas revolutionized the NBA,...
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Rich Cohen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-60806-4
Journalist Cohen (The Last Pirate of New York) delivers an engrossing account of the disappearance of a Connecticut woman who was likely killed by her estranged husband. On May 24, 2019, 50-year-old Jennifer Dulos, a wealthy New York City native and
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