Arthur Ashe: A Life

9 best books like Arthur Ashe: A Life (Raymond Arsenault): The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers, Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment, There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir, Branch Rickey, The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End, Bruce Lee: A Life, The Ugly American

The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

Author	Bridgett M. Davis
ISBN	0316558737

Set against the backdrop of Detroit in the 1960's and 1970's, the story of the life of a one-of-a-kind matriarch whose business in the Numbers made her daughter's dreams come true.

The World According to Fannie Davis is Bridgett Davis's unforgettable coming of age in a family with a secret....

Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination

Author

Brian Jay Jones

The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss.

Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. The silly, simple rhymes are a bottomless well of magic, his illustrations timeless...

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

Author	David W. Blight
ISBN	1416590315

As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity...

American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

Author	Shane Bauer
ISBN	0735223580

A groundbreaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.

In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An...

There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir

Author	Casey Gerald
ISBN	0735214204

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking outside his window and inside himself. Extraordinary." - Marlon James

"Staccato...

Branch Rickey

Author	Jimmy Breslin
ISBN	0670022497

The book that inspired Harrison Ford in his portrayal of Branch Rickey in the hit movie “42”

The idea of integrating baseball began as a dream in the mind of Branch Rickey. In 1947, as president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he defied racism on and off the field to bring Jackie...

The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End

Author	Gary M. Pomerantz
ISBN	0735223610

Out of the greatest dynasty in American professional sports history, an intimate story of race, mortality, and regret

About to turn ninety, Bob Cousy, the Hall of Fame Boston Celtics captain who led the team to its first six championships on an unparalleled run, has much to look back on in contentment....

Bruce Lee: A Life

Author	Matthew Polly
ISBN	1501187627

“The first noteworthy treatment of its subject—and a definitive one at that...Fascinating narrative threads proliferate.” —The New York Times Book Review

The most authoritative biography—featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs—of film legend Bruce Lee, who made...

The Ugly American

Author	William J. Lederer
ISBN	0393356728

A piercing exposé of American incompetence and corruption in Southeast Asia, The Ugly American captivated the nation when it was first published in 1958. The book introduces readers to an unlikely hero in the titular “ugly American”—and to the ignorant politicians and arrogant ambassadors...