Author: jonathaneig

Dive into this “first-rate biography” (Kirkus Reviews starred review) of Muhammad Ali, the dazzling heavyweight boxer, activist, and worldwide phenomenon — with startling insight from interviews and recently released government files.

The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig. Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend–the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear, Gehrig’s life was more complicated–and, … complicated–and, perhaps, even more heroic–than anyone really knew. Drawing on new interviews and more than two hundred pages of previously unpublished letters to and from Gehrig, Luckiest Man gives us an intimate portrait of the…