The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms - Hardcover

Rosenbaum, Ron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375503382 ISBN 13: 9780375503382

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Explains some of America's most interesting mysteries, controversies, and enigmas, such as the rituals of Skull and Bones, Yale's secret society, and the unsolved murder of JFK's mistress.

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About the Author

Ron Rosenbaum's work has appeared in <i>Harper's</i>, <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>The New Republic</i>, <i>Esquire</i>, and <i>The New York Times Magazine</i>. His book <i>Explaining Hitler</i> has been translated into ten languages. He writes "The Edgy Enthusiast" column for the <i>New York Observer</i> and is at work on his next book, on Shakespeare scholars. Aware of the controversy over authors posing with their pets on book jackets, he has not posed with his soulful cat, Stumpy (depicted here), whose comic genius is described on pages 710-15 of this volume.

From the Inside Flap

Rosenbaum published <i>Explaining Hitler</i>, a national bestseller and one of the most acclaimed books of the year, hailed by Michiko Kakutani in <i>The New York Times</i> as "lucid and exciting . . . a provocative work of cultural history that is as compelling as it is thoughtful, as readable as it is smart." <i>Time</i> called it "brilliant . . . restlessly probing, deeply intelligent."<br><br>The acclaim came as no surprise to those who have been reading Ron Rosenbaum's journalism, published widely in America's best magazines for three decades. The man known to readers of his <i>New York Observer</i> column as "The Edgy Enthusiast" has distinguished himself as a writer with extraordinary range, an ability to tell stories that are frequently philosophical, comical, and suspenseful all at once.<br><br>In this classic collection of three decades of groundbreaking nonfiction, Rosenbaum takes readers on a wildly original tour of the Ame

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375503382
• ISBN 13: 9780375503382
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 799