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Get Capone will be released on April 12, 2011 in Trade Paperback
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Get Capone is now available in Trade Paperback
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Luckiest Man will be released on May 11, 2010 in eBook
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Luckiest Man is now available in eBook
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Get Capone will be released on April 27, 2010 in Hardcover, eBook
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Get Capone is now available in Hardcover, eBook
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Jonathan Eig's Books
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Get CaponeBased on newly released government documents and wiretaps, Get Capone! tells the story how the nation's most-wanted criminal was really caught.Read More
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Luckiest ManThe life of one of the greatest baseball players of all time, revealing him to be a more complicated and perhaps even more heroic figure than we knew.Read More -
Opening DayAn fresh examination of the 1947 baseball season, when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, with an intimate portrait of Robinson's year.Read More
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ESPN.com, April 12, 2013
...Reese's brotherly embrace of Robinson in Cincinnati was a necessary inclusion in the film, even though author Jonathan Eig calls many of the details of that famed encounter into question in his book "Opening Day." [+] EnlargeD. StevensNicole Beharie...
Gapers Block, February 28, 2013
...Beer and Basketball at Revolution Brewing, 2323 N. Milwaukee Ave. on Sunday, March 3. Sports editor and author Jonathan Eig will interview local authors Rus Bradburd (Make It, Take It) and Michael Lenehan (Ramblers: The Team that Changed the Color of...
Time Out Chicago, January 25, 2013
...Posted in Robert Feder | Chicago Media blog by Robert Feder on Jan 24, 2013 at 5:00pm Jonathan Eig ChicagoSide Sports, the independent sports website featuring original, daily content from some of the city’s top writers and most promising rookies,...
Today's Chicago Woman, October 30, 2012
...Chicago were introduced by Emcee Bill Kurtis. The authors included Blue Balliett (Chasing Vermeer), Theresa Schwegel (Officer Down), Jonathan Eig (Luckiest Man, Opening Day), Cartoonist Kat Falls (Dark Life), Chef/Restaurateur Paul Virant, of Perennial...
PioneerLocal.com, September 26, 2012
..."Head Games" and concussions sponsored by ChicagoSide at Joe's Bar in Chicago. The moderator was ChicagoSide editor Jonathan Eig and the panel included Sun-Times sports columnist Rick Telander, who wrote an award-winning series on head trauma among his...
Eventful, June 18, 2012
...Join us for an author talk with Tere Tereba� on her new biography about� gangster Mickey Cohen --� .� "Tere Tereba gives the gangster the biography he has long deserved * an intense, straight-shooting, rocket-fast read, full of gossip, gore, and...
Erie Times-News, June 3, 2012
...we piece together a list of today's top sports biographers, it's headlined by Howard Bryant (ESPN), Jonathan Eig (the Wall Street Journal), Mark Kriegel (Fox Sports) and Laura Hillenbrand (American Heritage). If Appel is mentioned -- well, scratch that....
Huffington Post, May 1, 2013
...Tygiel (1983, recently re-released in paperback), Jackie Robinson: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad (1998), and Opening Day by Jonathan Eig (2008). I had read Tygiel's book many years ago, felt like I had gotten all of the Robinson info I needed, and...
Huffington Post, May 1, 2013
...Tygiel (1983, recently re-released in paperback), Jackie Robinson: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad (1998), and Opening Day by Jonathan Eig (2008). I had read Tygiel's book many years ago, felt like I had gotten all of the Robinson info I needed, and...
SB Nation, April 29, 2013
..."left out" -- if you want the true history of Jackie Robinson, watch a documentary. Or, go read Jonathan Eig's fine book on this topic, "Opening Day". The movie's two main characters are exceptionally well cast. Harrison Ford captures the gruff, but...
Grand Junction Free Press, April 25, 2013
...enough and strong enough to intimidate, and someone intelligent enough to understand the historic nature of his role,” Jonathan Eig writes in his book “Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season.” We never would have heard of...
Claiborne Progress, April 24, 2013
...enough and strong enough to intimidate, and someone intelligent enough to understand the historic nature of his role,” Jonathan Eig writes in his book “Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season.” We never would have heard of...
Florida Weekly, April 24, 2013
...enough and strong enough to intimidate, and someone intelligent enough to understand the historic nature of his role,” Jonathan Eig writes in his book “Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season.” We never would have heard of...
Cape May County Herald, April 22, 2013
...we see a few rare occurrences where his teammates begin to have sympathy for their fellow Dodger. As Jonathan Eig wrote in his excellent 2007 book, "Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season," both rated the fiery Eddie Stanky as...
