Cohen, Rich.

Summary: The bittersweet story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in the years after World War II, invented the sugar packet and Sweet'N Low, converting his Brooklyn cafeteria into a factory and amassing the great fortune that would destroy his family. A strange comic farce of machinations and double dealings, it is also the story of immigrants, sugar,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006

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Cohen, Rich.

Summary: The author describes growing up on the Great Lakes, relating how a relationship forged in adolescence shaped and transformed his life, and reexamines that friendship from the perspective of adulthood.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2002

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Cohen, Rich.

Summary: "In 1944, a band of Jewish guerrillas emerged from the Baltic forest to join the Russian army in its attack on Vilna, the capital of Lithuania. The band, called the Avengers, was led by Abba Kovner, a charismatic young poet. In the ghetto, Abba had built bombs, sneaking out through the city's sewer tunnels to sabotage German outposts. Abba's chief lieutenants were two teenage girls, Vitka...

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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2000

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Cohen, Rich.

Contents: Today you are a man, go get me a drink -- Jew Street -- They call it the blues, but it makes you want to dance -- 2120 South Michigan -- The kids dig it, but the kids are sick -- The record man pays for our sins.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2004

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