Books by John Heidenry and Complete Book Reviews

The Gashouse Gang: How Dizzy Dean
The Gashouse Gang: How Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher, Branch Rickey, Pepper Martin and Their Colorful, Come-from-Behind Ball Club Won the World Series—and America's Heart—During the Great Depression
John Heidenry, Author . Public Affairs $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-58648-419-4
Heidenry (The Boys Who Were Left Behind ) offers a thorough if occasionally dry account of the "immortal, implausible, impossible gang of ballplayers known officially as the 1934 St. Louis Cardinals." The author draws on a wealth of books...
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Zero at the Bone: The Playboy
Zero at the Bone: The Playboy, the Prostitute, and the Murder of Bobby Greenlease
John Heidenry, Author . St. Martin's $26.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-312-37679-6
This true crime caper by Heidenry (The Gashouse Gang ) of a 1953 Kansas child kidnapping gone bad carries a solid punch. The young victim, Bobby Greenlease, the six-year-old heir of wealthy businessman Robert Greenlease, never had a chance when Carl
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Theirs Was the Kingdom: Lila and DeWitt Wallace and the Story of the Reader's Digest
Theirs Was the Kingdom: Lila and DeWitt Wallace and the Story of the Reader's Digest
John Heidenry, Author W. W. Norton & Company $29.95 (704p) ISBN 978-0-393-31227-0
Heidenry offers an engaging, sweeping history of the Reader's Digest publishing empire and the couple who founded it. (Nov.)
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What Wild Ecstasy: The Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution
What Wild Ecstasy: The Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution
John Heidenry, Author Simon & Schuster $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-684-81037-9
Exhausting, colorful, by turns tedious and entertaining, this breezy popular history of American sexual behavior from the Kinsey Report to the AIDS epidemic bears a message spelled out on the last page: ""Sex is morally neutral. No one sexual group...
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The Boys Who Were Left Behind: The 1944 World Series Between the Hapless St. Louis Browns and the Legendary St. Louis Cardinals
The Boys Who Were Left Behind: The 1944 World Series Between the Hapless St. Louis Browns and the Legendary St. Louis Cardinals
John Heidenry, Author, Brett Topel, Author University of Nebraska Press $29.95 (173p) ISBN 978-0-8032-2428-5
Heidenry (Theirs Was the Kingdom) and sportswriter Topel tell one of baseball's nearly forgotten underdog stories: the 1944 ""Streetcar Series"" that pitted the famed St. Louis Cardinals against the notorious St. Louis Browns in ""an aberration both
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