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John Montague was a boisterous enigma. In the 1930s, he was called ""the world's greatest golfer"" by famed sportswriter Grantland Rice. He could drive the ball 300 yards and more, or he could chip it across a room into a highball glass. He played golf with everyone from Howard Hughes and W. C. Fields to Babe Ruth and Bing Crosby. Yet strangely, he never entered a professional tournament or allowed himself to be photographed. Then, a Time magazine photographer snapped his picture with a telephoto lens and police quickly recognized Montague as a fugitive with a dark secret. From the glamour of 1930s Hollywood, to John Montague's extraordinary skill and triumphs on the golf course, to the shady world of Adirondack rumrunners and the most controversial, star-studded court trial of its day, The Mysterious Montague captures a man and an era with extraordinary color, verve, and energy.

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PRAISE FOR NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR LEIGH MONTVILLE <br> TED WILLIAMS<br> <br> Exceptional. Montville on Ted Williams is can't-miss, one of America's best sportswriters weighing in on one of the last century's most intriguing figures. A great read. <br> --Chicago Tribune <br> In Ted Williams, Leigh Montville reaches a threshold even the mighty Williams could never touch: perfection. The beauty of Montville's work is that it is not a baseball book, per se, so much as the life and times of an oft perplexing, always fascinating man. <br> --Newsday <br> Montville is refreshingly nonjudgmental about his superstar subject. First-rate biography. <br> --Los Angeles Times Book Review <br> Crisp analogies and astute observations, combined with a fluid writing style, are Leigh Montville's strengths in this definitive biography of the Splendid Splinter. <br> --Tampa Tribune <br> THE BIG BAM<br> <br> [A] vivid, intimate account. Montville's unique voice ... makes old yarns seem new. <br> --Sports Illustrated<br> <br> Montville is a wonderful storyteller and Ruth's story, from Baltimore street urchin to international celebrity is indisputably amazing ... a fascinating tale, alternately happy and sad, and always artfully written. <br> --Chicago Tribune<br> <br> The best Ruth biography to date ... [Montville's] adroit organization of the historical material--enhanced by newly studied archival material and oral history transcripts, together with his flair for marshalling undisputed facts that are intertwined with plausible speculations--has produced an engaging, entertaining, and eminently readable biography. <br>-- Library Journal (starred review)

A great tale from one of our era's best storytellers. -- The New York Times In Montville's skillful hands, Montague's story becomes an epic drama about a potential hero undermined by his troubled past. -- The Boston Globe A well-paced ride. -- The Washington Post Hollywood missed this story, but the screen's loss is Montville's--and his readers'--gain. -- Sports Illustrated

A great tale from one of our era's best storytellers. <i>The New York Times</i> In Montville's skillful hands, Montague's story becomes an epic drama about a potential hero undermined by his troubled past. <i>The Boston Globe</i> A well-paced ride. <i>The Washington Post</i> Hollywood missed this story, but the screen's loss is Montville's and his readers' gain. <i>Sports Illustrated</i>

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LEIGH MONTVILLE is a former columnist at the Boston Globe and former senior writer at Sports Illustrated. He is the author of five books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Big Bam- The Life and Times of Babe Ruth, Ted Williams- The Biography of an American Hero, and At the Altar of Speed- The Fast Life and Tragic Death of Dale Earnhardt. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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