Kevin Cook, Norton, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-07115-3
Cook (Tommy's Honor), a former Sports Illustrated editor, introduces his portrait of the larger-than-life "Titanic" Thompson (1892–1974) as a self-made man from the Ozarks who loved games of chance and had a knack for winning incredible sums of...
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Kevin Cook, Author Gotham Books $26 (225p) ISBN 978-1-59240-394-3
In this excellent survey of golf's new generation, author and former Golf magazine editor-in-chief Cook (Tommy's Honor) takes a spirited look at the talented junior golfers of David Leadbetter's prestigious (and pricey) Bradenton, Fla. golf academy.
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Kevin Cook. Viking, $26.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-670-02570-1
In the early 1970s, the phrases “The Devil made me do it!” and “What you see is what you get!” rolled easily off of people’s lips and entered our cultural vocabulary, thanks to a young black comedian named Flip Wilson. Drawing on interviews with...
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Kevin Cook. Norton, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-23928-7
In his latest book, Cook (Titanic Thompson) disproves the popular belief about the 1964 murder of Catherine “Kitty” Genovese in Kew Gardens, Queens—that 38 neighbors watched her being stabbed to death from the safety of their apartment windows, and...
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Kevin Cook. Norton , $26.85 (162p) ISBN 978-0-39324-600-1
Having already explored the parent-child sports dynamic in Driven: Teen Phenoms, Mad Parents, Swing Science and the Future of Golf, Cook turns his attention closer to home as he shares the story of his father, Art, and how baseball lived at the...
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Kevin Cook. Holt, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-11656-7
The 1947 World Series between the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers was notable even if all the people involved weren’t at the time, writes Cook (Titanic Thompson), who profiles six people in this entertaining, well-researched history. It was...
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Kevin Cook. Holt, $30 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-18203-6
Sportswriter Cook (Electric October) takes an exciting look at the 1979 baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies, in which the two middling teams scored a combined total of 45 runs over 10 innings. In fast-paced, inning-by
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Kevin Cook. Henry Holt, $27.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-75555-1
Journalist Cook (Ten Innings at Wrigley) delivers a crisp account of the January 1986 Challenger disaster focused on Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher selected to join a space mission. The “Teacher in Space” program, according to Cook, aimed to...
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Kevin Cook. Holt, $28.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-84052-3
Journalist Cook (The Burning Blue) offers a fast-paced if sketchy account of the deadly 51-day showdown between the U.S. government and members of the Branch Davidian religious sect in 1993. Drawing from extensive interviews with surviving group...
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Kevin Cook. Avid Reader, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-1-6680-4364-6
In this meticulous if dry account, Cook (Waco Rising), the former editor-in-chief of Golf magazine, details the 16 months in the early 2000s when Tiger Woods won golf’s four major championships in succession. Cook recounts, sometimes stroke-by-stroke
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