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SUMMARY:Kevin Cook reads from The Last Headbangers
DESCRIPTION:The inside story of the most colorful decade in NFL history—pro football’s raging\, hormonal\, hairy\, druggy\, immortal adolescence. \nBetween the Immaculate Reception in 1972 and The Catch in 1982\, pro football grew up. In 1972\, Steelers star Franco Harris hitchhiked to practice. NFL teams roomed in skanky motels. They played on guts\, painkillers\, legal steroids\, fury\, and camaraderie. A decade later\, Joe Montana’s gleamingly efficient 49ers ushered in a new era: the corporate\, scripted\, multibillion-dollar NFL we watch today. Kevin Cook’s rollicking chronicle of this pivotal decade draws on interviews with legendary players—Harris\, Montana\, Terry Bradshaw\, Roger Staubach\, Ken “Snake” Stabler—to re-create their heroics and off-field carousing. He shows coaches John Madden and Bill Walsh outsmarting rivals as Monday Night Football redefined sports’ place in American life. Celebrating the game while lamenting the physical toll it took on football’s greatest generation\, Cook diagrams the NFL’s transformation from second-tier sport into national obsession.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/kevin-cook-reads-from-the-last-headbangers/
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SUMMARY:Ashley Prentice Norton reads from her debut The Chocolate Money
DESCRIPTION:Bettina Ballentyne is a chocolate heiress only by name; it is her glamorous and narcissistic mother\, Babs\, who lives up to the billing and plays by no one’s rules. Navigating a simultaneously treacherous and alluring landscape of wealth\, sex\, and decadence—first in her privileged childhood in Chicago and later at a top-tier east coast boarding school—Bettina must figure out how to reconcile her yearning for maternal affection with her mother’s take-no-prisoners-style parenting. \nAshley Prentice Norton’s unflinching eye and acerbic wit capture Bettina’s coming of age with the perfect mixture of tragic and comic. Simultaneously sassy\, deeply twisted\, and uproariously funny\, the novel’s sharp and sparkly humor will have you laughing during its darkest moments. A mesmerizing portrayal of the corrosive effects of an American fortune\, The Chocolate Money is a shocking and intensely readable debut.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ashley-prentice-norton-reads-from-her-debut-the-chocolate-money/
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SUMMARY:Tom Reiss reads from his new book The Black Count
DESCRIPTION:By the author of the internationally bestselling biography The Orientalist\, The Black Count brings to life one of history’s great forgotten heroes: a man almost unknown today yet with a personal story that is strikingly familiar.  His swashbuckling exploits appear in The Three Musketeers\, and his triumphs and ultimate tragic fate inspired The Count of Monte Cristo. His name is Alex Dumas.  Father of the novelist Alexandre Dumas\, Alex has become\, through his son’s books\, the model for a captivating modern protagonist: the wronged man in search of justice. \nThe Black Count is simultaneously a riveting adventure story\, a lushly textured evocation of 18th-century France\, and a window into the modern world’s first multi-racial society. But it is also a heartbreaking story of the enduring bonds of love between a father and son.  Drawing on hitherto unknown documents\, letters\, battlefield reports and Dumas’ handwritten prison diary\, The Black Count is a groundbreaking masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/tom-reiss-reads-from-his-new-book-the-black-count/
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SUMMARY:6 PM: Janet Wallach reads from her new book The Richest Woman in America
DESCRIPTION:A captivating biography of America’s first female tycoon\, Hetty Green\, the iconoclast who forged one of the greatest fortunes of her time.\n \nNo woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green. At the time of her death in 1916\, she was worth at least 100 million dollars\, equal to more than 2 billion dollars today. A strong believer in women being financially independent\, she offered valuable lessons for the present times. Abandoned at birth by her neurotic mother\, scorned by her misogynist father\, Hetty set out as a child to prove her value. Following the simple rules of her wealthy Quaker father\, she successfully invested her money and along the way proved to herself that she was wealthy and therefore worthy. \nSet during a period of financial crisis strikingly similar to our current one\, acclaimed author Janet Wallach’s engrossing exploration of a fascinating life revives a rarely-mentioned queen of American finance.
URL:https://cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/janet-wallach-reads-from-her-new-book-the-richest-woman-in-america/
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