Peter Lurie Book order

Game for Life: John Madden explores the life and career of the iconic coach, broadcaster, and face of the long-running Madden NFL video game franchise. A 2006 enshrinee, Madden led the Oakland Raiders to their first Super Bowl win in 1976 against the Minnesota Vikings, and after his retirement went on to become a celebrated and beloved color commentator and analyst who captured fourteen Sports Emmy Awards for Outstanding Sports Event Analyst. Bestselling author Peter Richmond, who chronicled Madden’s Raiders in his acclaimed book, Badasses, tells the inspiring story of how a small-college standout who never made it out of his first NFL training camp as a player, went from an assistant coach at tiny Allan Hancock College to a Super Bowl-winning head coach with the highest winning percentage in the modern era (.763). The Game for Life biography series celebrates The Pro Football Hall of Fame's mission of honoring the heroes of professional football, preserving its history, promoting its values, and celebrating excellence everywhere.

American Obscurantism argues for a salutary indirection in US culture. Critiquing the impulse to see history in seminal works like Griffith's Birth of a Nation and the residual positivism of New Historicist methodology, the book challenges this shared visual epistemology . It traces meaningful exceptions to this pattern across canonical figures from US literature and film.

They were the NFL’s ultimate outlaws, black-clad iconoclasts who, with a peculiar mix of machismo and brotherhood, of postgrad degrees and firearms, merrily defied pro football corporatism. The Oakland Raiders of the 1970s were some of the most outrageous, beloved, and violent football teams ever to play the game. In this rollicking biography, Peter Richmond tells the story of Oakland’s wrecking crew of psychos, oddballs, and geniuses who won six division titles and a Super Bowl under the brilliant leadership of coach John Madden and owner Al Davis. Richmond goes inside the locker room and onto the field with Ken Stabler, Willie Brown, Fred Biletnikoff, George Atkinson, Phil Villapiano, and the rest of this band of brothers who made the Raiders legendary. Funny, raunchy, and inspiring, Badasses celebrates the ’70s Raiders as the last teams to play professional football the way it was meant to be played: down and very, very dirty.

Faulkner's complex relationship with American popular culture significantly shaped his modernist fiction. Peter Lurie explores how Faulkner's experiences as a Hollywood screenwriter and his ambivalence towards consumer art influenced his novels from the 1930s. By applying Theodor Adorno's theories, Lurie analyzes works such as Sanctuary and Absalom! Absalom!, highlighting Faulkner's use of cinematic techniques, voyeurism, and popular forms like melodrama. This study reveals how Faulkner's art reflects and critiques the cultural landscape of his time.