Larry Tye

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige
“Among the rare biographies of an athlete that transcend sports . . . gives us the man as well as the myth.”—The Boston Globe
Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in the Negro Leagues. Through dogged detective...

Larry Tye, the prize-winning journalist and "New York Times" bestselling author of "Satchel, " delivers the first full-fledged history not just of the Man of Steel but of the creators, designers, owners, and performers who made Superman the icon he is today.

This book traces the transformation of Jewish life through the stories of seven communities. in each city, Tye focuses on a single family or congregation whose tale reflects the wider Community's history and current situation.

The Father of Spin is the first full-length biography of the legendary Edward L. Bernays, who, beginning in the 1920s, was one of the first and most successful practitioners of the art of public relations. This book tells of Bernays's great campaigns, including. His precedent-setting work for the American Tobacco Company, climaxed by a parade of cigarette-smoking debutantes down Fifth Avenue on Easter Sunday that recast smoking as an act of liberation...