Background
Kahn, Roger was born on October 31, 1927 in Brooklyn. Son of Gordon Jacques and Olga R. Kahn.
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He was the most famous and best ballplayer of his generation. She was America’s blonde. They were intense, impassioned lovers, and, long after that, gentle and loving friends. The only thing that didn’t work between Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe was their marriage. Joe & Marilyn is a portrait of DiMaggio, as godlike as his legend on the field, but vulnerable and intensely human off and of a stormy Marilyn of whom it was said, “She doesn’t need a husband. She needs salvation.” After DiMaggio retired from baseball, he saw a publicity photo of Marilyn and his courtship began. She was reluctant to meet him fearing an old, vulgar ballplayer and instead finding a poised and graying man―"a little shy, like me"―impeccably tailored and financially secure. When they married in 1954, reporters called them “Mr. and Mrs. America.” But their married life was strained from the start. She was messy. He was compulsively neat. He wanted a certain primness and she liked to show her storied body. The marriage lasted nine months. In later years as Marilyn drifted through mental illness, DiMaggio reappeared as a stalwart friend. But even he could not rescue her. In the end all that was left for him was to plan her funeral. He barred some of Hollywood’s most famous names. Why? "Because they killed her," he told a friend.
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( Robert Frost, Claudio Arrau, John Lardner, Jackie Robin...)
Robert Frost, Claudio Arrau, John Lardner, Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Leo Durocher, Bobby Thomson, Al Rosen, Jascha Heifetz, and other heroic figures in their years of glory, in their times of trial. This is a book about people to be remembered, and what it was like in America at a very special time.
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( Roger Kahn’s first major league hit was a grand slam: T...)
Roger Kahn’s first major league hit was a grand slam: The Boys of Summer, his runaway bestseller that immortalized the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers. Now Kahn does the same for players whose moment in the sun has not yet arrived. Good Enough to Dream is the story of his year as owner of the Class A, very minor league Utica Blue Sox. Most of the Blue Sox will never make it to the majors, but they all share the dream that links the small child in the sandlot with the bonus baby who has just smacked one out of the stadium. It’s a dream Kahn learned from his father and, in the course of a season, passes on to his daughter—hours of practice for a moment of poetry; a hard living but a touch of legend. Good Enough to Dream presents baseball unadorned, a game still sweet enough to lure grown men to leagues where first-class transportation is an old school bus and the infield is likely to be the consistency of thick soup. It is a funny and poignant story of one season and one special team that will make us hesitate before we ever call anything “bush league” again.
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(Student unrest, racism and war--these issues dominated th...)
Student unrest, racism and war--these issues dominated the Vietnam era and are explored here by a witness to the events. Roger Kahn tells the story of rebellion on a single American campus. What makes it memorable, apart from the courage and the brutality, is that it fired student uprisings throughout the nation. It is the story of a great university, Columbia, torn apart by rage. Though less obvious now, the symptoms lie just below the surface of events today. "THE BATTLE FOR MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS is the most important book which has been written on the subject of student unrest." --Eugene McCarthy
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( In 1976 Roger Kahn spent an entire baseball season, fro...)
In 1976 Roger Kahn spent an entire baseball season, from spring training through the World Series, with players of every stripe and competence. The result is this book, in which Kahn reports on a small college team’s successes and hopes, a young New England ball club, a failing major league franchise, and a group of heroes on the national stage.
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(A collection of expert sports pieces touches on locker-ro...)
A collection of expert sports pieces touches on locker-room controversies and politics while inviting readers to share in the passion, grace, energy, and intense concentration involved in playing sports. 25,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour.
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( Spanning half a century, the first comprehensive anthol...)
Spanning half a century, the first comprehensive anthology of the great Roger Kahn's writing, for a new generation of sports fans Roger Kahn, author of 19 books including the modern classic The Boys of Summer, is arguably America's greatest sportswriter. Now, for the first time, Beyond the Boys of Summer presents a showcase of 50 years worth of Kahn's celebrated work. From a 1955 article on the incomparable Jackie Robinson to excerpts from his recent bestselling book on the controversial '78 Yankees, this unprecedented anthology spans an entire career to show off the grace, wit, and elegance of Roger Kahn's most memorable writing on sports, as well as his reporting beyond the world of baseball diamonds and boxing rings. Uniquely organized around life's stages, the book brings readers face to face with some of the greatest names in sport, including Muhammad Ali, Jack Dempsey, Reggie Jackson, and Pete Rose. Through Kahn's fly-on-the-wall style, readers will see Duke Snider in the avocado fields of California, Mickey Mantle in Texas taverns, and Joe DiMaggio watching his famous wife, Marilyn Monroe, flirt for the movie cameras. In the final segment, Kahn meets the 80-year-old poet Robert Frost, mourns the deaths of friends and heroes, and movingly writes about how sports stars--and even sportswriters--grow old, looking back on a long life well lived.
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Kahn, Roger was born on October 31, 1927 in Brooklyn. Son of Gordon Jacques and Olga R. Kahn.
Student, University College, New York University, 1944-1947.
Sports reporter, New York Herald Tribune, New York City, 1948-1955; sports editor, Newsweek Magazine, New York City, 1956-1960; editor-at-large, Saturday Evening Post, New York City, 1963-1969; assistant professor journalism, L.I.U., 1967; Adjunct Professor creative writing, Colorado College, 1972; director non-fiction writers workshop, U. Rochester, 1974, 75, 77; president, Utica Blue Sox Baseball Team, New York, 1983-1984.
( Spanning half a century, the first comprehensive anthol...)
( In these essays, written between 1954 and 1990, bestsel...)
( Robert Frost, Claudio Arrau, John Lardner, Jackie Robin...)
(A collection of expert sports pieces touches on locker-ro...)
( In 1976 Roger Kahn spent an entire baseball season, fro...)
( Roger Kahn’s first major league hit was a grand slam: T...)
(What is it like to be Jewish and American? Roger Kahn, hi...)
(Student unrest, racism and war--these issues dominated th...)
(He was the most famous and best ballplayer of his generat...)
(He was the most famous and best ballplayer of his generat...)
(Jewish Studies, American Studies)
(Sports Baseball fiction)
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Trustee Harvey School, Katonah, New York. Member Authors Guild Foundation (council).
Children: Gordon Jacques II, Roger Laurence (deceased), Alissa Avril. Married Katharine C. Johnson.