Category: Book Cellar

• The page-turning book about how Rocky Wirtz turned the Blackhawks into winners

  

  I’ve only been to a few hockey games — always under duress — but that didn’t keep me from reading “The Breakaway: The Inside Story of the Wirtz Family Business and the Chicago Blackhawks,” well into the night. Typically I don’t expect sports books to be page-turners, but Bryan Smith, a two-time winner and six-time…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  December 10, 2018

  Author event, Book Cellar, Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago sports

  book signing, Chicago Blackhawks, The Breakaway

• How the French Saved America

  Give credit to France for the forming of our nation because without their help we might still be, as stereotypes go, eating crumpets, drinking tea and speaking with British accents. That’s the focus of a new book by noted author Tom Shachtman in his latest book How the French Saved America: Soldiers, Sailors, Diplomats, Louis…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  October 16, 2017

  American History, Book Cellar, Book signings, Book Stall, Chicago, History, The Newberry, University Club of Chicago

• Sportscaster pens book about the winning Cubs ‘plan’

  With his team unable to win a World Series in over a century, the new owner and president of the Chicago Cubs came up with a radical way of transforming the most lovable losers into a powerhouse of a team. His audacious plan was to tear down and rebuild the team. Many in the sports…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  July 10, 2017

  Author event, Authors, Book Cellar, Book signings, Chicago sports, Cubs, The Book Cellar, Triumph