Jeffrey A. Marx Books

"Joe Ehrmann, a former NFL football star and volunteer coach for the Gilman high school football team ... devotes his life to teaching young men a whole new meaning of masculinity. He teaches the boys at Gilman the precepts of his Building Men for Others program: Being a man means emphasizing relationships and having a cause bigger than yourself. It means accepting responsibility and leading courageously. It means that empathy, integrity, and living a life of service to others are more important than points on a scoreboard"--Jacket

At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Carl Lewis won four gold medals matching the track and field accomplishments of the legendary Jesse Owens and making him one of the best known athletes in the world. This is an autobiography written in collaboration with Jeffrey Marx, a sports journalist.

Both the object of admiration and anxiety, Jewish immigrants to the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century were often depicted in derogatory caricatures. Smoothing the Jew investigates how Jewish artists of the time attempted to "smooth over" these demeaning images, focusing on the first Jewish comic strip published in English, Harry Hershfield's Abie the Agent.