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Bird, Magic, Isiah and Michael are the basketball stars of Rich Cohen’s ‘When the Game Was War’

Rich Cohen writes … and writes and writes and writes. This child of Glencoe, Illinois is among the most prolific writers on the planet and the wonder of it all is that not only does he provide a steady stream of books, they are very good books. There have been 16 so far, beginning with “Tough Jews” in 1998. Some have been based on his own interesting life, one about one of his sons in 2021′s ...
Author Rich Cohen on May 18, 2022, in Chicago.

Rich Cohen writes … and writes and writes and writes.

This child of Glencoe, Illinois is among the most prolific writers on the planet and the wonder of it all is that not only does he provide a steady stream of books, they are very good books.

There have been 16 so far, beginning with “Tough Jews” in 1998. Some have been based on his own interesting life, one about one of his sons in 2021′s and another about his fascinating He’s written about a pirate and a banana business mogul, and collaborated on the memoir of producer Jerry Weintraub in “When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead,” and written about Chess Records and the

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