ALSO BY RICH COHEN
The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse
Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams
The Avengers: A Jewish War Story
Lake Effect
The Record Men: The Chess Brothers and the Birth of Rock & Roll
Sweet and Low: A Family Story
Israel Is Real
When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead (with Jerry Weintraub)
Alex and the Amazing Time Machine
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King
Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football
The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones
The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation
A Note About the Author
Rich Cohen is the New York Times–bestselling author of Tough Jews, Monsters, Sweet and Low, The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones, The Chicago Cubs, and The Last Pirate of New York, and, with Jerry Weintraub, the coauthor of When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead. He is a cocreator of the HBO series Vinyl, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, and a writer at large for Air Mail. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper’s Magazine, among other publications. Cohen has won the Great Lakes Book Award, the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award, and the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He lives in Connecticut. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraphs
2018–2019 Roster, Pee Wee A Ridgefield Bears
Author’s Note
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
LAKE PLACID—AN INTERLUDE
DECEMBER
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
Acknowledgments
Also by Rich Cohen
A Note About the Author
Copyright
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Copyright © 2021 by Rich Cohen
All rights reserved
First edition, 2021
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Jeremy Medoff for permission to reproduce the photographs here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, and to Can/Am magazine for permission to reproduce the image here.
Photographs here, here, here, and here are from the personal collection of the author.
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