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By Jimmy Breslin (foreword by), Stan Freberg (foreword by), Walt Kelly and Steve Thompson (introduced by)

Hardcover:

9781606996294 | Slp edition (Fantagraphics Books, December 14, 2012), cover price $69.99

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The journalist and disillusioned Catholic offers a critique of the Roman Catholic Church, the sex scandals that have wracked the priesthood, and the church hierarchy's coverup of those scandals.

Hardcover:

9780743266475 | Free Pr, June 29, 2004, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The journalist and disillusioned Catholic offers a critique of the Roman Catholic Church, the sex scandals that have wracked the priesthood, and the church hierarchy's coverup of those scandals.

Paperback:

9780743266727 | Free Pr, January 11, 2014, cover price $16.99

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Product Description: "Branch Rickey is all good, all 146 pages of it. You might read a longer baseball book this year, but you won't read a better one."-Sports IllustratedIn a brilliant match between author and subject, this latest addition to the Penguin Lives series features the inimitable Jimmy Breslin telling the rags-to-riches tale of Branch Rickey, the legendary manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who integrated baseball by putting Jackie Robinson into the major leagues...read more

Paperback:

9780143120476 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 28, 2012), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: "Branch Rickey is all good, all 146 pages of it.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781400119592 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, March 17, 2011), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: The idea of integrating baseball began as a dream in the mind of Branch Rickey.
9781400169597 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, March 17, 2011), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A grand-slam combination: an iconic bestselling author remembers the man who integrated baseball.

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A first volume of Pogo daily and Sunday comics includes all of its strips from its early years and features its creator's scathing political views, satirical humor, and mangled Christmas carols, in a collection that features the introductions of such characters as Porkypine and Mr. Truant Officer.
By Jimmy Breslin (introduced by), Walt Kelly and Steve Thompson (contributor)

Hardcover:

9781560978695 | Reprint edition (Fantagraphics Books, December 5, 2011), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: A first volume of Pogo daily and Sunday comics includes all of its strips from its early years and features its creator's scathing political views, satirical humor, and mangled Christmas carols, in a collection that features the introductions of such characters as Porkypine and Mr.

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Product Description: The idea of integrating baseball began as a dream in the mind of Branch Rickey. In 1947, as president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he defied racism on and off the field to bring Jackie Robinson into the major leagues, changing the sport and the nation forever...read more
By Jimmy Breslin and Dick Hill (narrator)

CD/Spoken Word:

9781400149599 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, March 17, 2011), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: The idea of integrating baseball began as a dream in the mind of Branch Rickey.

A portrait of Eduardo Gutiâerrez, an illegal immigrant worker in the U.S., describes his accidental death in November 1999 at a Brooklyn construction site, in a study of corruption, bad politics, and official indifference.

Hardcover:

9780609608272 | 1 edition (Crown Pub, March 1, 2002), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A portrait of Eduardo Gutiâerrez, an illegal immigrant worker in the U.

Paperback:

9781400046829 | Reprint edition (Three Rivers Pr, February 1, 2003), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A portrait of Eduardo Gutiâerrez, an illegal immigrant worker in the U.

Miscellaneous:

9780307559630 | Crown Pub, February 17, 2010, cover price $12.00

Reinforced:

9780606311083, titled "Short Sweet Dream Of Eduardo Gutierrez" | Demco Media, August 30, 2004, cover price $21.25 | About this edition: All of Eduardo Gutiérrez’s dreams gave him no idea of the dangerous path ahead.

Prebinding:

9781417657711, titled "Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez" | Turtleback Books, February 1, 2003, cover price $23.35 | About this edition: All of Eduardo Gutiérrez’s dreams gave him no idea of the dangerous path ahead.

Miscellaneous:

9780061802034 | Harpercollins, October 13, 2009, cover price $10.99

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In a street-savvy journey behind the scenes of the Mafia during its golden era, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist chronicles the people, places, and events that defined organized crime, capturing the world of such colorful figures as John Gotti, Vito Genovese, Sammy the Bull, and others and tracing the rise and fall of the mob in New York.

Hardcover:

9780060856663 | Ecco Pr, February 1, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In a street-savvy journey behind the scenes of the Mafia during its golden era, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist chronicles the people, places, and events that defined organized crime, capturing the world of such colorful figures as John Gotti, Vito Genovese, Sammy the Bull, and others and tracing the rise and fall of the mob in New York.

Paperback:

9780060856694 | Reprint edition (Perennial, February 1, 2009), cover price $14.99
9780061363887 | Large print edition (Harperluxe, March 1, 2008), cover price $25.99

Miscellaneous:

9781605149592 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, June 1, 2008), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: Of course Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin recognized Burton Kaplan right away as the Mafia witness of the ages.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781602833760 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 15, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Jimmy Breslin can sniff out a story like he can sniff out a rat.

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Collects original essays by various New York reporters and authors that illuminate many uncomfortable facts about the leading 2008 Republican presidential candidate, including his arrogance, crass ambitions, ethical lapses, and policy failures.
By Jimmy Breslin (contributor) and Robert Polner (editor)

Paperback:

9781933368948 | Rev exp edition (Soft Skull Pr, May 9, 2007), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Collects original essays by various New York reporters and authors that illuminate many uncomfortable facts about the leading 2008 Republican presidential candidate, including his arrogance, crass ambitions, ethical lapses, and policy failures.

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Product Description: German photographer Horst Hamann first visited New York in 1979, in what turned out to be a formative experience. He has since become a kind of New York specialist. In 1997 he published his award-winning photobook New York Vertical, stark black-and-white compositions in vertical panoramas...read more

Paperback:

9783829601276 | Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh, September 30, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: German photographer Horst Hamann first visited New York in 1979, in what turned out to be a formative experience.

Product Description: German photographer Horst Hamann first visited New York in 1979, in what turned out to be a formative experience. He has since become a kind of New York specialist. In 1997 he published his award-winning photobook New York Vertical, stark black-and-white compositions in vertical panoramas...read more

Hardcover:

9783829601283 | Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh, September 30, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: German photographer Horst Hamann first visited New York in 1979, in what turned out to be a formative experience.

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Recounts the trials and tribulations of the New York Mets' first year and the courage and tenacity of coach Casey Stengel

Paperback:

9781566634885 | Reprint edition (Ivan R Dee, February 1, 2003), cover price $12.95
9780140062175 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, May 1, 1982), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Recounts the trials and tribulations of the New York Mets' first year and the courage and tenacity of coach Casey Stengel

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The eleventh book by the author of Table Money and The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight chronicles the fictional life of a mob family trying to survive in modern-day New York. Reprint.

Paperback:

9780316120326 | Reprint edition (Lb Books, July 1, 2002), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Chronicles the fictional life of a mob family trying to survive in modern-day New York.

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Presents brief profiles of many of the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks. (view table of contents)
By Jimmy Breslin (introduced by)

Paperback:

9780940159778 | Camino Books Inc, May 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Presents brief profiles of many of the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

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The eleventh book by the author of Table Money and The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight chronicles the fictional life of a mob family trying to survive in modern-day New York. 75,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780316118453 | Little Brown & Co, May 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the fictional life of a mob family trying to survive in modern-day New York.

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Product Description: It was a big bestseller when it was originally published in 1969. It became a major motion picture that provided Robert DeNiro with his first film role. Its title has entered into the language as a catch phrase. And it's terrific fun!The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight is the story of Papa Baccala, a Brooklyn Mafia boss, and Kid Sally Palumbo, a would-be capo who "couldn't run a gas station at a profit even if he stole the customers' cars"...read more

Paperback:

9780783893914, titled "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, March 1, 2001), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: It was a big bestseller when it was originally published in 1969.
9780316111744, titled "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" | Back Bay Books, October 1, 1997, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: The first novel of the syndicated columnist pokes fun at the cult of the Mafia and presents a group of inept Sicilians
9780140103083, titled "Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" | Reprint edition (Select Penguin, September 1, 1987), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: The first novel of the syndicated columnist pokes fun at the cult of the Mafia and presents a group of inept Sicilians

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A memoir, penned when the jouralist was facing the reality of needing brain surgery, captures the many special moments he experienced, from his ride in a helicopter with the Beatles to the Brooklyn race riots. Reprint.

Paperback:

9780316118798 | Back Bay Books, October 1, 1997, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: The New York newspaper columnist presents a memoir, told in the form of flashbacks during his recent brain surgery, from his turbulent childhood in Queens to his rise to prominence as a reporter

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Product Description: NonfictionLarge Print EditionHis memoir is as tough as the streets of New York, and as sensitive as a poet in search of the truth. starred, Publishers WeeklyCall it a miracle, fate, pure luck, or just another day in the city, but in 1994 Jimmy Breslin narrowly escaped death after doctors discovered an aneurysm in his brain that could have burst and killed him at any moment...read more

Hardcover:

9780786209712 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 1, 1997), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: NonfictionLarge Print EditionHis memoir is as tough as the streets of New York, and as sensitive as a poet in search of the truth.
9780316110310 | Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1996, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: The New York newspaper columnist presents a memoir, told in the form of flashbacks during his recent brain surgery, from his turbulent childhood in Queens to his rise to prominence as a reporter

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Product Description: Damon Runyon was the journalist and short story writer who, more than anyone else, personified the razzle-dazzle of Broadway and the Roaring 1920s. As a reporter he found early success covering not only Broadway but also the Mexican Revolution, World War I, the Lindbergh kidnapping and the worlds of professional boxing and baseball...read more

Paperback:

9780440505020 | Dell Books, December 1, 1992, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Damon Runyon was the journalist and short story writer who, more than anyone else, personified the razzle-dazzle of Broadway and the Roaring 1920s.

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Immortalizes Damon Runyon in a biography of the Roaring Twenties journalist who covered the Mexican Revolution, World War I, the Lindbergh kidnapping, sports and theater

Hardcover:

9780899199849 | Ticknor & Fields, September 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Immortalizes Damon Runyon in a biography of the Roaring Twenties journalist who covered the Mexican Revolution, World War I, the Lindbergh kidnapping, sports and theater

Product Description: Father D'Arcy Cosgrove, originally from Ireland but recently out of Africa, in the company of Baby Rock, who lives by mayhem, and Disco Girl, who lives by making babies, soon learns that violence is good for business

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780930435400 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, January 1, 1989), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Father D'Arcy Cosgrove, originally from Ireland but recently out of Africa, in the company of Baby Rock, who lives by mayhem, and Disco Girl, who lives by making babies, soon learns that violence is good for business

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Father D'Arcy Cosgrove, originally from Ireland but recently out of Africa, in the company of Baby Rock, who lives by mayhem, and Disco Girl, who lives by making babies, soon learns that violence is good for business

Hardcover:

9780899193113 | Ticknor & Fields, January 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Father D'Arcy Cosgrove, originally from Ireland but recently out of Africa, in the company of Baby Rock, who lives by mayhem, and Disco Girl, who lives by making babies, soon learns that violence is good for business

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Owney Morrison, a Vietnam veteran and a sandhog like his father, has difficulty forgetting the war and getting on with civilian life

Hardcover:

9780816142606 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, October 1, 1987), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Owney Morrison, a Vietnam veteran and a sandhog like his father, has difficulty forgetting the war and getting on with civilian life
9780899193120 | Ticknor & Fields, April 1, 1986, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Returned to his Queens home in 1970 after winning a Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam, Owney Morrison works at digging tunnels during the day and escapes with drink at night--from everything, including his wife Dolores and their child

Paperback:

9780140100464 | Reprint edition (Select Penguin, May 1, 1987), cover price $4.95 | also contains Simple Shelters: Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes and Other Ancient Homes | About this edition: Returned to his Queens home in 1970 after winning a Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam, Owney Morrison works at digging tunnels during the day and escapes with drink at night--from everything, including his wife Dolores and their child

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