Pete Hamill

Embodied Leadership: The Somatic Approach to Leadership Development

by Pete Hamill

We don't need leaders who know about leadership - we need leaders who embody the capacity to lead in the midst of ambiguity and complexity. The concept of embodied leadership is derived from somatic coaching,...

The Invisible City: A New York Sketchbook

by Pete Hamill

In this collection of thirty-four sketches, the author captures the extraordinary range of people, experiences, places and feelings that is New York City -- the city behind the glamorous facade of Manhattan,...

News Is a Verb

by Pete Hamill

LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT

"When screaming headlines turn out to be based on stories that don't support them, the tale of the boy who cried wolf gets new life. When the newspaper is filled with stupid features...

The Christmas Kid: And Other Brooklyn Stories

by Pete Hamill

"Hamill, a master raconteur, mines his own roots in this enchanting new anthology." ---New York Times

Pete Hamill's collected stories about Brooklyn present a New York almost lost but not forgotten. They read...

Loving Women

by Pete Hamill

A novel of the Fifties.  Michael Devlin is going through his third divorce and trying to go back to a time when his life was simpler and he was understood.

Meyer Berger's New York: Smart Work, Managed Choice, and the Transformation of Higher Education

by Meyer Berger & Pete Hamill

Meyer ("Mike") Berger was one of the greatest journalists of this century. A reporter and columnist for The New York Times for thirty years, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for his account of the murder of thirteen...

Forever: A Novel

by Pete Hamill

This widely acclaimed bestseller is the magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York in 1740 and remains ... forever. Through the eyes of Cormac O'Connor - granted immortality as long as...

Tabloid City: A Novel

by Pete Hamill

In a stately West Village town house, a wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered. In the 24 hours that follow, a flurry of activity surrounds their shocking deaths:

The head of one of the city's last...

Snow in August

by Pete Hamill

In the year 1947, Michael Devlin, eleven years old and 100 percent American-Irish, is about to forge an extraordinary bond with a refugee of war named Rabbi Judah Hirsch. Standing united against a common enemy,...

Downtown: My Manhattan

by Pete Hamill, Lindsey Newman & Sophie Pollitt-Cohen

In Downtown, Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the island's southern tip to 42nd Street, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in New York with a passionate...

Piecework: Writings on Men & Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was

by Pete Hamill

In a new volume of journalistic essays, the eclectic author of A Drinking Life offers sharp commentary on diverse subjects, such as American immigration policy toward Mexico, Mike Tyson, television, crack, Northern...

Why Sinatra Matters

by Pete Hamill

Shaped by Prohibition, the Depression and World War II, Sinatra became the spokesman of urban loneliness. In this tribute, the author draws upon intimate conversations over the course of many year, examining...

A Drinking Life: A Memoir

by Pete Hamill

As a child during the Depression and World War II, Pete Hamill learned early that drinking was an essential part of being a man, inseparable from the rituals of celebration, mourning, friendship, romance, and...