Bücher von Rich Cohen

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICEA SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLERIn AD 70, when the Second Temple was destroyed, a handful of visionaries saved Judaism by reinventing it, taking what had been a national religion and turning it into an idea. Whenever a Jew studied-wherever he was-he would be in the holy city, and his faith preserved. But in our own time, Zionists have turned the book back into a temple, and unlike an idea, a temple can be destroyed. With exuberance, humor, and real scholarship, Rich Cohen's Israel is Real offers "a serious attempt by a gifted storyteller to enliven and elucidate Jewish religious, cultural, and political history . . . A powerful narrative" (Los Angeles Times).

Sweet and Low is the amazing, bittersweet, hilarious 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.It is also the story of immigrants to the New World, sugar, saccharine, obesity, and the health and diet craze, played out across countries and generations but also within the life of a single family, as the fortune and the factory passed from generation to generation. The author, Rich Cohen, a grandson (disinherited, and thus set free, along with his mother and siblings), has sought the truth of this rancorous, colorful history, mining thousands of pages of court documents accumulated in the long and sometimes corrupt life of the factor, and conducting interviews with members of his extended family. Along the way, the forty-year family battle over the fortune moves into its titanic phase, with the money and legacy up for grabs. Sweet and Low is the story of this struggle, a strange comic farce of machinations and double dealings, and of an extraordinary family and its fight for the American dream.

Als junger Journalist erhält Rich Cohen in den Neunzigern einen Auftrag, der alles verändert. Er bekommt die einmalige Chance, die Rolling Stones auf ihren US-Touren zu begleiten. Unterwegs mit der Band, verfällt er rasch ihrer einzigartigen Faszination. Wird Teil des Epos "Rolling Stones". Und schneller, als er sich umschauen kann, zum Insider, eingeweiht in die typischen Witze, die Kameradschaft, die bisweilen bissigen Umgangsformen, das harte Leben der größten Rockband aller Zeiten. Doch neben all den Drogen und Affären, den Auseinandersetzungen und zahllosen Wiedervereinigungen ist es die Musik, die bleibt. Dieses Buch ist inspiriert durch Cohens Bewunderung für die Songs der Stones, die an Besessenheit grenzt. Es ist der rigorose Blick eines Mannes, der ganz nah dran war und noch immer ist an der legendären Band, die Generationen prägte. Und zugleich eine bahnbrechende Kulturgeschichte, verfasst von einem preisgekrönten Autor zahlreicher New-York-Times-Sachbuchbestseller. Ein Buch, so gut, so frech, so elegant - so anders, dass es sich liest wie ein Roman.