Peter Golenbock

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Peter Golenbock (born July 19, 1946) is an American author. [1] He is noted for his many books about baseball and other sports. [2] Many of his books have been bestsellers. [3]

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Career

Golenbock initially worked as a lawyer for Prentice Hall, a publishing house. He began his writing career after convincing an editor to let him write a book about the Yankees. [2] The book, Dynasty: The New York Yankees, 1949-1964, was chosen by Joe Torre as one of the best books on baseball, in a 1997 New York Times article. [4]

The Bronx Zoo, which Golenbock coauthored with Yankees pitcher Sparky Lyle, was a New York Times bestseller and, in 2003, was chosen as one of Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books Of All Time. [5]

Personal Fouls: The Broken Promises and Shattered Dreams of Big Money Basketball at Jim Valvano's North Carolina State was controversial when it was published. [6] The original publisher, Simon & Schuster, dropped the book, and the North Carolina attorney general threatened a lawsuit. [7]

Critical reception

Publishers Weekly called Wild, High and Tight: The Life and Death of Billy Martin, about the life of baseball manager Billy Martin, "an extremely thorough and comprehensive biography." [8] The review mentions Golenbock's assertion that Martin was the actual driver the night he died in a drunken car crash. Kirkus Reviews wrote that Cowboys Have Always Been My Heroes: The Definitive Oral History of America's Team "should not be missed," calling it a "brilliantly conceived and executed chronicle." [9] The Washington Post wrote that American Nero: The History of the Destruction of the Rule of Law, and Why Trump Is the Worst Offender, coauthored with Richard Painter, "serves to remind us, in icy, granular detail, of what has happened to constitutional democracy in three short years, and all that we have absorbed, integrated and somehow moved beyond." [3]

Partial bibliography

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References

  1. ↑ STEADMAN, TOM. "GOLENBOCK'S RETURN TO N.C. IS ONE FOR THE BOOKS ``PERSONAL FOULS' AUTHOR GETS UNEVENTFUL RECEPTION". Greensboro News and Record.
  2. 1 2 Curtis, Bryan (May 28, 2014). "Right Down the Middle".
  3. 1 2 Lithwick, Dahlia. "Review | Defending the rule of law in the Trump era" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  4. ↑ "The New York Times > Books > An All-Star Lineup of Baseball Books". archive.nytimes.com.
  5. ↑ McEntegart, Pete. "The Top 100 Sports Books Of All Time". Sports Illustrated Vault | SI.com.
  6. ↑ Berkowitz, Steve (July 30, 1989). "'PERSONAL FOULS' AUTHOR STANDS BY THE BOOK" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  7. ↑ Myslenski, Skip. "`PERSONAL FOULS` IS AN EMBARRASSMENT TO ALL". chicagotribune.com.
  8. ↑ "Wild, High and Tight: The Life and Death of Billy Martin". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  9. ↑ "COWBOYS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MY HEROES | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.


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