by Rich Cohen
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rich Cohen, a New York Times bestselling author, grew up on the North Shore of Chicago, where he died with the Cubs and was reborn with the Bears. He has written ten books and a host of magazine articles for, among others, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and Vanity Fair, where he’s a contributing editor. Cohen has won the Great Lakes Book Award and the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award, and his essays have been included in The Best American Essays and The Best American Travel Writing. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and three sons, but is plotting his return to Chicagoland.
ALSO BY RICH COHEN
Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams
The Avengers: A Jewish War Story
Lake Effect
The Record Men: The Chess Brothers and the Birth of Rock & Roll
Sweet and Low: A Family Story
Israel Is Real: An Obsessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and Its History
Alex and the Amazing Time Machine
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
Copyright © 2013 by Rich Cohen
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First edition, 2013
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cohen, Rich.
Monsters: the 1985 Chicago Bears and the wild heart of football / Rich Cohen.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-374-29868-5 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-374-70895-5 (ebook)
1. Chicago Bears (Football team)—History. I. Title.
GV956.C5 C65 2013
796.332'640977311—dc23
2013021701
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