Poker players Johnny Moss, Pug Pearson, and Titanic Thompson; tennis player Bobby Riggs; pool player Minnesota Fats; and backgammon player Tim Holland have come away with their pockets filled and their sense of infallibility intact. The dramatic descriptions of the ambience and the games are riveting, but more intriguingly, Jon Bradshaw deftly probes these gamblersâ€™ minds and hearts as he attempts to define what makes some men winners and most losers.

Fast company

BRADSHAW, JON

Harper's Magazine Press

Describes the personalities, activities, and techniques of six consistently winning gambler-players in tennis, golf, pool, backgammon, bowling, bridge, and poker, examining their relationships to their games and the qualities of their expertise

FAST COMPANY-V618 (Vintage Departures)

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Vintage

A study of the life of torch singer and Broadway star Libby Holman, set against the backdrop of the notorious Cafe Society of the 1920's, details the scandals and tragedies of her life, her bisexual love affairs, and her mysterious death

Dreams That Money Can Buy: The Tragic Life of Libby Holman

Arts & Photography

Music

William Morrow & Co.

"Bradshaw was a famously charming man, and his lounge-lizard urbanity fully suffuses his prose. This new anthology is a necessary book for all men and women of letters." --Martin Amis A collection of magazine writer Jon Bradshaw's essential writings,The Ocean is Closed rediscovers a memorable talent, and offers us a shadow reality to the established literary canon of the mid-century. With droll wit and keen intelligence, Bradshaw's cinematic prose brings the '70s to vibrant life--from the lurid pick-up scenes at hotspots like Maxwell's Plum in New York, and the Beverly Hills Hotel in L.A., to full-bodied portraits of literary figures such as W.H. Auden and Tom Stoppard; affectionate profiles of hustlers and con men such as Bobby Riggs and MinnesotaFats, to chilling reportage about street gangs in the Bronx, terrorism in Germany, and mercenary freedom fighters in India. Jon Bradshaw, a man of tremendous personal charm, good humor and rugged beauty, was a literary concoction of his own devising: the magazine writer as world-weary traveler and man about town. Adored by British royalty, magazine editors, movie executives, and professional mercenaries, alike, Bradshaw first made a splash in London during the Swinging Sixties. Pals with the likes of Anna Wintour, Timothy Leary, Gore Vidal, and Martin Amis, his career flourished at a time when magazines wereat the center of the cultural conversation, delivering stories that were talked about for weeks. For twenty years, he cut a distinct figure in this world, before his untimely death. A forgotten master of longform magazine writing, Bradshaw is ripe for rediscovery as one of the sharpest chroniclers of his age.

The Ocean Is Closed: Journalistic Adventures and Investigations (ZE Series, 3)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

ZE Books

He was a legend of Australian rock, the front man who lived as hard and as wildly as he performed . . . this is his story\nOften compared to David Bowie and Mick Jagger, Doc Neeson was hailed as a 'messianic rock god'.\nHe was thumping, pumping, sweaty hard rock. He commanded the stage. He was unstoppable. He was terrifying. He was wild. He was a legend. And as their front man, Doc propelled the Angels to become the highest paid band in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. With massive album sales in Australia and a US record deal, global superstardom seemed assured . . . but then everything started to fall apart.\nThis is Doc's story with the highs, the lows, the girls, the booze, the drugs, the tours, the good deeds, the crazy antics, the dark days and the great split that shattered the Angels. When he died in 2014 from a brain tumour, a black veil came down over a generation of Australian rock fans.

Doc: The life and times of Aussie rock legend Doc Neeson

Allen& Unwin

Poker players Johnny Moss, Pug Pearson, and Titanic Thompson; tennis player Bobby Riggs; pool player Minnesota Fats; and backgammon player Tim Holland have come away with their pockets filled and their sense of infallibility intact. The dramatic descriptions of the ambience and the games are riveting, but more intriguingly, Jon Bradshaw deftly probes these gamblers’ minds and hearts as he attempts to define what makes some men winners and most losers.

Fast Company: How Six Master Gamblers Defy the Odds - and Always Win

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