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Shnayerson's fifth book was a collaborative biography of singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, titled My Song in 2011. In 2016, he wrote The Contender , an unauthorized biography of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo , [ 5 ] while his seventh book, BOOM: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art was released in 2019.
Biographer Michael Shnayerson reports that Shaw, impressed by the rendering of the incident, retreated to the restroom to furtively record notes from which he would develop the story. [ 2 ] "Then We Were Three" was declined by The New Yorker , a journal that had formerly published numerous short stories by Shaw.
Caro's editor Robert Gottlieb initially suggested the Johnson project to Caro in preference to the planned follow-up to the Moses volume, a biography of Fiorello LaGuardia. The ex-president had recently died and Caro had already decided, before meeting with Gottlieb on the subject, to undertake his biography; he "wanted to write about power". [15]
Coal River: How a Few Brave Americans Took on a Powerful Company–and the Federal Government–to Save the Land They Love is a 2008 book by Michael Shnayerson.. Coal River is a work of investigative journalism which describes an environmental controversy in southern West Virginia, where coal companies are using mountaintop removal mining.
Michael Franzese Sr. (/ f r æ n ˈ z iː s /) [2] (né Grillo; born May 27, 1951) is an American former mobster who was a caporegime in the Colombo crime family in New York City, and son of former underboss Sonny Franzese.
Baron grew up in a Jewish family [4] in Asbury Park, New Jersey, one of two children of Morton Baron, an engineer, and his wife Marian. [5] Baron invested $1,000, saved from shoveling snow, waiting tables, working as a life guard, and selling ice cream, and turned it into $4,000 by investing in stocks, prompting cohorts to call him "Count", a nickname which still sticks. [5]
Maggie Shnayerson (born Margot Beahan Shnayerson June 20, 1981 in New York, NY) is an American journalist and blogger. She was an editor at Gawker Media 's flagship site, Gawker.com and has written for TIME magazine, the New York Sun , and the New York Post .
Michael Imperioli (born March 26, 1966) [1] is an American actor, novelist, screenwriter and musician. He is best known for his roles as Christopher Moltisanti in the HBO crime drama series The Sopranos (1999–2007), which earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2004, and as Dominic Di Grasso in the HBO comedy drama series The White Lotus in 2022.