Smoky Joe Wood: The Biography of a Baseball Legend

September 4, 2013

“With details culled from interviews and family archives, this biography, the first of this rugged player of the Dead-ball Era, brings to life one of the genuine characters of baseball history.”

—Bob Edmonds, McCormick Messenger

Tagged: Nonfiction

Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past

By Tore C. Olsson
St. Martin's Press
288 pages
$30

“I recommend Red Dead’s History unreservedly not only to fans of the iconic video game, but also to anyone who wants to understand the riotousness — from Wild West gunslingers to Jim Crow to lynching — that darkened our past, and which continues to influence our culture. Olsson’s prose is graceful, his analysis profound. This is history at its most accessible and exciting.”

~Peter Cozzens, award-winning author of A Brutal Reckoning