Planning to turn in his dissertation and leave Yale behind, graduate student Zach Blumberg is devastated when his work, a study of an obscure nihilistic French philosopher, mysteriously disappears just before a fellow student is murdered...
Yes Virginia dear, there are Jewish baseball players! And Morrie Ginsberg, plucked from his Brooklyn Brownsville neighborhood by New York Giants' John McGraw with the hope of transforming immigrants and their children into generations of new American...
Tom Mahoney is the golden boy everyone knew in school: good-looking, charming, an athlete---sought after by women, the envy of men. His success in life seems a foregone conclusion. In The Appearance of a Hero, Tom navigates the passage into adulthood...