Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles by Les Standiford
Ecco
The movie "Chinatown" made the story of the controversial Los Angeles aqueduct famous beyond California. Now Standiford tells the true tale of William Mulholland — the ditch-digger turned tycoon who 100 years ago diverted melting snow from the Sierra Nevada mountains more than 200 miles, ending a drought and enabling LA to become a major urban metropolis. Standiford not only compares the story to "Chinatown," he also addresses the city's current water crisis.
Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth by John Szwed
Viking
Szwed, who's previouly written bios on Miles Davis, Sun Ra and Alan Lomax, takes on Lady Day. He devotes most of his book to Holiday's music and musicianship — comparing her singing style to contemporaries like Judy Garland and Marlene Dietrich — rather than her drug problems and other downbeat stories with which most people are already familiar.
In Pursuit of Pennants: Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball by Mark L. Armour and Daniel R. Levitt
University of Nebraska Press
The majority of baseball books concentrate on the men in uniform. But Armour and Levitt approach the national pastime through front offices and team owners. Today, all the talk is about analytics and moneyball, but the authors look at different eras of the game and the systems that resulted in winning — including the introduction of the minor-league system, improved scouting, integration and free agency. We like the story about the Yankees' George Steinbrenner threatening to sue the Angels after Bobby Grich spurned the Yanks in 1976.
The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter
Putnam
The Empire strikes back — the British Empire, that is. Set in 1837, Carter's debut novel follows a pair of mismatched English soldiers named Avery and Blake through India — then under British rule — as they seek a missing writer who may have been abducted by the mysterious Thuggee cult. Soon they find themselves sucked into a nefarious world of bandit gangs and corrupt British East India Company officers in this yarn reminiscent of adventures by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Madman and the Assassin: The Strange Life of Boston Corbett, the Man Who Killed John Wilkes Booth by Scott Martelle
Chicago Review Press
After receiving a portion of the reward money for bringing Booth to justice, Boston Corbett disappeared from public view and died under mysterious circumstances. Now Martelle delivers the first details many Americans have ever heard about the Union soldier who might be called the Jack Ruby of the 19th century. An abolitionist who joined the 16th New York cavalry, he was in Virginia with his company during the manhunt for Lincoln's assassin and killed Booth in a barn.
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