Kostya Kennedy

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Kostya Kennedy

Kostya Kennedy, a former senior writer at Sports Illustrated, is the author of several books about baseball. His most recent book is “The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America."Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred’s May 13 decision to remove Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and a handful of other dead ballplayers from baseball’s “permanently ineligible” list revived perhaps the most enduring and provocative debate in sports: Does Rose belong in the Baseball Hall of Fame?

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Kostya Kennedy

Kostya Kennedy is the author of five books, including “The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America.”A quarter-millennium after Paul Revere mounted his borrowed horse on a moonlit Charlestown night, not a day on earth passes without his name and figure being mentioned, alluded to, or invoked. That’s not just because of the branding — there’s a town named after Revere outside Boston and there are Paul Revere schools and academies in states from coast to coast.

2 months ago | spreaker.com | Kostya Kennedy |Arroe Collins

On April 18, 1775, a Boston-based silversmith, engraver, and staunch anti-British political operative named Paul Revere set out on the most famous horse ride in American history. A century later it inspired the poem and legend of "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." But the story is deeper and richer than we've all assumed.

2 months ago | brooklyndigest.org | Kostya Kennedy |Jason Schott

The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved AmericaBy Kostya KennedySt. Martin's Press; hardcover, 304 pages; $30.00; available today, Tuesday, March 25thKostya Kennedy has written landmark biographies of the biggest figures in American sports, including the New York Times bestselling 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports; Pete Rose: An American Dilemma; and True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson, which we reviewed in April 2022.

Dec 28, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Kostya Kennedy |David Grann |Howard Zinn

A skillful separation of truth, legend, and what lies between in a canonical American story. A brisk trot through Paul Revere’s famous ride and the many traces of history surrounding it. That April night in 1775 wasn’t Paul Revere’s first ride nor his last.