Books with author Jonathan West

The year is 1942. The world is at war and the Nazis are actively plotting against the United States. President Roosevelt has issued a "green light letter" to the commissioner of Major League Baseball, encouraging the game to continue despite the conflict overseas. Rookie pitcher Emmett Drexler becomes an overnight sensation in Boston with a quirky blooper pitch labeled "the bumpus" by sportswriters. As the strikeouts pile up, the lowly Boston Wranglers begin a gradual climb out of the National League basement. But Drexler is not who he appears to be and several teammates will be unwittingly drawn into a sinister web of Nazi espionage. In this richly detailed memoir, retired major-leaguer "Chick" Dotson recounts his most eventful season. All characters and situations are firmly rooted in historical fact.

A beautifully written, wide-ranging and totally absorbing look at the prospects for life on Planet Earth, at the latest and most complex stage of evolution. It brings all the basic evidence together for the first time. We see One World in the deepest sense: the human species as one among millions of species, interwoven, for better or worse, into a vast living system, a superorganism. We see the sciences increasingly mobilized in an all-out effort to asure the survival of the whole. The author has been where the action is: the tropical forest, on glaciers and volcanoes, wherever vital changes in the health of the good Earth are being monitored. For an authentic look at the shape of things to come, this is the book.