Open Road Media imprint: 6782 books
Babe Ruth
His Life and Legend
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The most famous baseball player in history, and the most enduring legend, Babe Ruth is remembered for his dramatic heroism not only on the baseball diamond but also in his life. Kal Wagenheim illustrates this larger than life athlete in his book Babe Ruth: His Life and Legends, and describes him as...
Muscle
Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
From skinny scholar to muscle-bound showman. “Easily the best memoir ever written about weight training, steroids and all” (Men’s Journal).
When blue-blooded, storklike Samuel Wilson Fussell arrived in New York City fresh from the University of Oxford, the ethereal young graduate seemed...
The Story of American Golf
Its Champions and Championships, 1888–1975
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The classic history of golf in America beginning with the first clubs to arrive on the coast—from “golf’s most respected and authoritative writer” (Golf magazine).
Widely regarded as the definitive account of America’s love affair with the world’s greatest game, this magisterial...
by Pat Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The acclaimed author of A False Spring profiles athletes famous and obscure in this captivating and incisive anthology
Once a young pitching prospect with the Milwaukee Braves, Pat Jordan went on to become one of America’s most revered sports journalists, writing for Sports Illustrated, Esquire,...
Greed and Glory on Wall Street
The Fall of the House of Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
The inside account of a financial meltdown that reshaped Wall Street
In 1983, Lew Glucksman, then co-CEO of the heralded investment bank Lehman Brothers, demanded the resignation of chairman Pete Peterson, with whom he had long argued over how to manage the company. Shockingly, Peterson, who...
by David Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
New York Times Bestseller: “A historical overview of the auto industry in the United States and Japan [and] the gradual decline of U.S. manufacturing” (Library Journal).
After generations of creating high-quality automotive products, American industrialists began losing ground to the...
by Julius Fast
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A revised and updated edition of the New York Times–bestselling classic on understanding body language from the author of Subtext.
Body Language helps you to understand the unconscious body movements and postures that provide intimate keys to what a person is really thinking and the secrets...
The Taking of Getty Oil
Pennzoil, Texaco, and the Takeover Battle That Made History
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A larger-than-life account of family, greed, and a courtroom showdown between Big Oil rivals from the New York Times–bestselling author of Private Empire.
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Steve Coll is renowned for “his ability to take complicated, significant business stories and turn them...
Once in Golconda
A True Drama of Wall Street, 1920–1938
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Business Adventures comes the chronicle of the stock market crash of 1929 and its aftermath
Legend had it that anyone who passed through Golconda, a city in southern India, attained tremendous wealth. But Golconda, now in ruins, ran out of riches,...
The Go-Go Years
The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
A humorous and keen look at the roller-coaster boom and bust of the 1960s and 1970s by the New York Times–bestselling author of Business Adventures
John Brooks blends humor and astute analysis in this tale of the staggering “go-go” growth of the 1960s stock market and the ensuing crashes...
Inside Job
The Looting of America's Savings and Loans
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
New York Times Bestseller: A history of the S&L scandal that caused a financial disaster for American taxpayers: “Hard to put down” (Library Journal).
For most of the 20th century, savings and loans were an invaluable thread of the American economy. But in the 1970s, Congress passed...
Only Yesterday
An Informal History of the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
A history of roaring prosperity—and economic cataclysm: “The one account of America in the 1920s against which all others must be measured” (The Washington Post).
Beginning November 11, 1918, when President Woodrow Wilson declared the end of World War I in a letter to the American public,...
Business Adventures
Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
“Business Adventures remains the best business book I’ve ever read.” —Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal
What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf...
by Baltasar Gracián
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Life guidance from a famed Renaissance man.
This influential work of philosophy by one of the great thinkers of the Renaissance era advises people of all walks of life how to approach political, professional, and personal situations in a dog-eat-dog world. Comprised of three hundred pithy aphorisms,...