The Museo Italo-Americano in San Francisco currently has an exhibit called "Italian Americans at Bat: From Sandlots to the Major Leagues." UNP author Lawrence Baldassaro was there last week with his book, Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball. Baldassaro is a professor emeritus of Italian at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Beyond DiMaggio will be published in paperback this spring. Continue reading Italian Americans at Bat
Ozzie Zehner will be on CBC Q Radio this morning discussing his new book Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism. It airs on CBC Radio One, Sirius, CBC TV and select U.S. cities by Public Radio International. Find your local station here. Audio of the show will also available online tomorrow. Continue reading Zehner on CBC radio
On Anchorage Daily News, Rock, Water, Wild by Nancy Lord was listed in Reading the North. Sherrie Flick, author of Reconsidering Happiness, had an interview with Necessary Fiction. And Roger Launius reviewed Holland's Life of Abraham Lincoln by J.G. Holland on his blog saying that "…it is a welcome addition to historical literature." Continue reading Media mentions
Save 25 percent off these books in honor of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur! Visit our sale page for the promotion code. Offer expires September 25, 2012. Continue reading Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur sale
Kate Buford’s Native American Son is up for best track and field book for the CBC Summer Sports Showdown book poll. You can vote once a day until Aug. 12. Click HERE to vote now! Continue reading CBC book poll for Summer Olympics: Vote for Kate!
The Federal Court fight continues over where Jim Thorpe's final resting place will be. Last week, his two sons testified. Read more about this pending Olympian case on Yahoo! News. If you want to know more about one of America's first great olympians, check out Native American Son by Kate Buford. With clarity and an eye for detail, Buford traces the pivotal moments of Thorpe’s incomparable career. Continue reading Federal court case contines over late olympian
Julija Šukys’ Epistolophilia was reviewed by Mélanie Grondin on the Montreal Review of Books blog. Read the full review here. Continue reading Review of Epistolophilia
In an article by Tom Zeller Jr., Green Illusions is analyzed and Zehner answers questions about his green energy conclusions. Read the article here. Continue reading Ozzie Zehner in Huffington Post
Click here to read a review of From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel by Robert S. Wistrich. Continue reading From National Review Online
Author and baseball pro, Aaron Pribble, was on Sportsideo talking about his career and book, Pitching in the Promised Land. Click here to watch the interview. Continue reading Aaron Pribble on video
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