Rich Cohen

"A riveting account of the 1985 Chicago Bears and the author's personal relationship with the football team"-- For Cohen and millions of other fans, the 1985 Chicago Bears were more than a football team: they were the greatest football team ever, a gang of colorful nuts, dancing and pounding their way to victory. They won a Super Bowl and saved a city. Cohen tracked down the coaches and players from this iconic team and asked them everything he has...

A biography of the little-known antihero, Samuel Zemurray (1877-1961), the disgraced mogul of the much hated United Fruit Company who aided the creation of Israel, funded many of Tulane University's buildings, and had a hand in the rise of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly, and penniless. When he died in the grandest house in New Orleans sixty-nine years later, he was among the richest,...

Here is the story of Jerry Weintraub: the self-made, Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised impresario, Hollywood producer, legendary deal maker, and friend of politicians and stars. No matter where nature has placed him--the club rooms of Brooklyn, the Mafia dives of New York's Lower East Side, the wilds of Alaska, or the hills of Hollywood, with Elvis or Sinatra, Robert Altman or George Clooney--he has found a way to put on a show and sell tickets at the door....