Tom Clavin, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0486-6
Although the claim that Hagen "invented professional golf" is a stretch, the five-time PGA Championship winner undoubtedly influenced the sport. Hagen (1892–1969) grew up poor in Rochester, N.Y., but got a 10-cents-an-hour job at a...
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Tom Clavin, Chicago Review, $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-55652-821-7
Clavin (Halsey's Typhoon) commemorates the centennial of trumpeter Louis Prima's birth with an entertaining biography of the bandleader's colorful life, music, and marriages—especially his union with fourth wife, singer Keely Smith, 18 years his...
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Tom Clavin. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-07148-4
Recounting the most famous of cattle towns and its two most influential lawmen, Clavin (Reckless) argues that it wasn’t gunfights but rather the refusal to fight that eventually tamed Dodge City, Kans., the “wickedest town in the American west.”...
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Tom Clavin. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-17379-9
Clavin (Dodge City) portrays the legendary James “Wild Bill” Hickok as a sometimes trigger-happy gunman who became a 19th-century celebrity, in this rollicking but vaguely sourced biography. Hickok, born in 1837 Illinois, landed his first job in law
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Tom Clavin and Danny Peary. New American Library, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-23586-2
Clavin and Peary (Roger Maris) add to the hagiography of the Brooklyn Dodgers from the perspective of star first baseman Gil Hodges. Hodges signed with the Dodgers in 1943, and then left for the Marine Corps to serve in the South Pacific. He...
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Tom Clavin, read by John Bedford Lloyd. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-8306-1
Clavin’s history of Dodge City, Kans., is a wildly entertaining and informative look at the Old West and the lifelong friendship of Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, two self-trained lawmen who led the effort to establish justice on the frontier. Doc...
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Bob Drury, Author, Tom Clavin, Author . Atlantic Monthly $25 (322p) ISBN 978-0-87113-948-1
At the height of the Second World War in 1944, the U.S. Pacific Fleet was struck by a typhoon that sank three destroyers and drowned 800 sailors. Drury (The Rescue Season
) and Clavin (Dark Noon: The Final Voyage of the Fishing Boat Pelican
) draw...
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Bob Drury, Author, Tom Clavin, Author . Atlantic $24 (353p) ISBN 978-0-87113-993-1
The authors of the bestselling Halsey's Typhoon
do a fine job recounting one brutal, small-unit action during the Korean War's darkest moment. In November 1950, as General MacArthur's troops were advancing deep into North Korea,...
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Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. Free Press, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4391-6101-2
The dramatic story of the chaotic last days of the Vietnam War in April 1975 is an iconic chapter in this controversial war. Books, indelible photos, and news footage have recorded the anarchy at the gates of the U.S. embassy and the departing...
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Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. Simon & Schuster, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4516-5466-0
For all of our culture’s fascination with the American Indian, it’s almost impossible to believe that one of the most well-known Indians of his time, the Oglala Sioux warrior chief Red Cloud, could be largely forgotten until now. Yet that’s exactly...
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Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. Simon & Schuster, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-1-5011-5271-9
This gripping, panoramic account of the Continental Army’s 1777–1778 winter encampment at Valley Forge charts, in lively language, the decisions that allowed the American Revolution to survive. George Washington’s ragtag troops had fled the pursuing
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Phil Keith with Tom Clavin. Hanover Square, $29.99 (320 pages) ISBN 978-1-335-47141-3
Keith and Clavin follow All Blood Runs Red with this dramatic account of the Confederate raider CSS Alabama and its showdown against the steam “sloop of war” USS Kearsarge. As the authors explain, the vastly outnumbered Confederate Navy was unable...
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Tom Clavin. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-21458-4
The 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ariz., was “the last gasp of violent lawlessness in a closing frontier,” according to this scrupulous history. Journalist Clavin (coauthor, Valley Forge) details the origins of the boomtown’s name (t
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Tom Clavin. St. Martin’s, $23.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-2501-5126-1
Bestseller Clavin (coauthor, Blood and Treasure) delivers a sluggish account of an American fighter pilot’s imprisonment at the Buchenwald concentration camp during WWII. Born in Ferndale, Wash., in 1921, Joe Moser enlisted in the Army Air Corps...
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Tom Clavin. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-21455-3
Bestseller Clavin (coauthor, The Last Hill) sketches in this scrupulous if meandering history the origin story of the Texas Rangers. Beginning in 1821, when Anglo settlers “thought it a good idea to have a sort of militia always ready for future...
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Tom Clavin. St. Martin’s, $30 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-28238-5
The Dalton Gang’s failed attempt to rob two banks at once in Coffeyville, Kans., in October 1892 was “arguably final confirmation of the end of the Wild West,” according to this detailed and digressive history. Journalist Clavin (Tombstone) sets the
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Tom Clavin and Bob Drury. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-24713-1
Clavin and Drury return (after Valley Forge) with an enlightening biography of Daniel Boone set against the backdrop of 18th-century America’s conflicts with England and Native tribes. Born in 1734 to English immigrants in Pennsylvania, Boone was...
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Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-2502-4716-2
Frequent collaborators Drury and Clavin (Blood and Treasure) revisit the 1944 Battle of Hürtgen Forest in this exhaustive history. Before they get to the action, the authors detail the U.S. Army Rangers’ origins in Gen. George Marshall’s admiration...
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