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Kostya Kennedy

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Kostya Kennedy

Kostya Kennedy is the Editor in Chief of Premium Publishing at Dotdash Meredith. A former Senior Writer and Editor at Sports Illustrated, he is the author of TRUE: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson, as well as the New York Times bestsellers 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports and PETE ROSE: An American Dilemma. All three books won the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year. He has taught at Columbia and New York University, and he lives in Westchester County, New York.

Kostya Kennedy

Books by Kostya Kennedy

by Kostya Kennedy - History, Nonfiction

On April 18, 1775, a Boston-based silversmith, engraver and anti-British political operative named Paul Revere set out on a borrowed horse to fulfill a dangerous but crucial mission: to alert American colonists of advancing British troops, which would seek to crush their nascent revolt. Revere had completed at least 18 previous rides across New England and other colonies, disseminating intelligence about British movements. But this ride was like no other, and its consequences in the months and years to come --- as the American Revolution morphed from isolated skirmishes to a full-fledged war --- became one of our founding legends. In THE RIDE, Kostya Kennedy presents a dramatic new narrative of the events of April 18 and 19, 1775, informed by fresh primary and secondary source research into archives, family letters and diaries, contemporary accounts, and more.

by Kostya Kennedy - Biography, Nonfiction, Sports

TRUE is an unconventional biography, focusing on four transformative years in Jackie Robinson's athletic and public life: 1946, his first year playing in the essentially all-white minor leagues for the Montreal Royals; 1949, when he won the Most Valuable Player Award in his third season as a Brooklyn Dodger; 1956, his final season in major league baseball, when he played valiantly despite his increasing health struggles; and 1972, the year of his untimely death. Through it all, Robinson remained true to the effort and the mission, true to his convictions and contradictions. These four crucial years offer a unique vision of Robinson as a player, a father and husband, and a civil rights hero.