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So many works of golfing history focus on the greats: the best players, the most prestigious championships, the hardest courses, and the like. But most avid golfers are average players, relishing in the joy of the sport itself. In Golf’s Iron Horse, celebrated golf writer John Sabino chronicles the previously untold story of Ralph Kennedy, a golf amateur whose love of the game set him on par to play more courses than anyone before. A founding member of Mamaroneck, New York’s prestigious Winged Foot Golf Club, Kennedy had long been an avid golfer when he met Charles Leonard Fletcher in 1919. When the Englishman told Kennedy that he had played more than 240 courses in his lifetime, Kennedy...
For the golf enthusiast who has heard it all"Firsts, Facts, Feats, and Failures in the World of Golf" offers a refreshingly hilarious and enlightening compilation of stories from Ken Janke, one of golf's most colorful historians. From the early days of the game to today's golf legends, this book includes the greats and almost-greats, the winners and losers, the true and not-so true.
"Revealing, sympathetic, shocking." The Boston Globe The National Bestseller, the portrait of one of the most best loved and most hated presidents in American history, whose appetites for power and sex were equally consuming, and who is more controversial in death than he ever was alive.
JFK had won the Presidency in 1960 by a razor thin majority, and his re-election campaign for 1964 was expected to be as close. He began it in November 1963 with a kick-off multi-city, four-day swing across the important state of Texas. It was going unexpectedly well when shots were fired into his triumphant motorcade in downtown Dallas that ripped history apart, changing it forever The assassination of American President John F. Kennedy in 1963 came at the very height of both the Cold War following the Second World War and the Pax Americana that was thought to exist at the war's conclusion in 1945. The United States and its allies possessed a far greater number of nuclear weapons than their...
History roared with the crack of a gunshot on April 4th, 1968. Locked away, a 16-year-old boy saw his chance and ran. Escaping a Nevada reformatory for possession of drugs. He jumped a freight train, oblivious to the echoes of gunfire changing the nation. One hitch on a desolate highway, a passing Mustang, and a stranger who becomes his lifeline... and his curse. With promises of a new life. His flight from prison is transformed into a twisted journey fueled by lies and manipulation as the young man is lured across the border into Mexico, then back to Los Angeles. His destination: the Ambassador Hotel, a name that will soon echo with a second fatal gunshot. Is he just a runaway, or is he being groomed for a role in the shadows of history? The boy finds himself trapped--groomed for a sinister purpose he can barely grasp and never saw coming. 63 Days between two assassinations that changed history and a young man’s strange odyssey.
From the pinnacle of success to the depths of despair, a fallen billionaire playboy finds a second chance in the most unexpected place. In 'He's So Bad: A San Francisco Love Story,' the sixth enthralling installment in the LOVE in the USA Contemporary Romance Series by Z.L. Arkadie, redemption is more than a word; it's a collision with destiny. Once, I had everything—or so I thought. Wealth, women, and the wild lifestyle of a billionaire playboy. But reckless choices have consequences, and I hit rock bottom, losing everything I held dear. Resigned to my fate, my resolve was unshakable until an unforeseen opportunity from an old friend proved I still had something to fight for. Enter Carter...