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Alongside Hamilton
It’s 1895 and thirteen-year-old Rory Mac, a poor, fatherless newsboy for Pulitzer’s New York World , needs a break. He gets one when Hamilton “Ton” Fish, member of the storied Fish family and star athlete at Columbia University, asks him to work his corner for an underground boxing match at McSorley’s Alehouse, setting in motion an unexpected but inspiring friendship.
Ton gives Rory Mac someone to look up to and access to realms he could previously only dream of--New York’s smart set, the power players on Newspaper Row, the Union League. In time, Rory helps Ton, who is big-hearted but whiskey-leaning, pick himself up after life knocks him down. Their friendship carries both men West, to train in Texas, and then to the Spanish-American War, where they are confronted in dramatic fashion with the harsh realities and incredible possibilities that life can bring.
Alongside Hamilton tells the story of two unlikely friends who go to war for different Ton out of principle, Rory to rescue his first true love, the Cuban heroine Carmen Castilla. But they go together, and they go as members of Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, the most uncommon lot of soldiers America has ever seen. In the process, they come to represent the magnificent potential of America itself.
Ton gives Rory Mac someone to look up to and access to realms he could previously only dream of--New York’s smart set, the power players on Newspaper Row, the Union League. In time, Rory helps Ton, who is big-hearted but whiskey-leaning, pick himself up after life knocks him down. Their friendship carries both men West, to train in Texas, and then to the Spanish-American War, where they are confronted in dramatic fashion with the harsh realities and incredible possibilities that life can bring.
Alongside Hamilton tells the story of two unlikely friends who go to war for different Ton out of principle, Rory to rescue his first true love, the Cuban heroine Carmen Castilla. But they go together, and they go as members of Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, the most uncommon lot of soldiers America has ever seen. In the process, they come to represent the magnificent potential of America itself.
224 pages, Paperback
Published August 11, 2021
About the author
Carson Cunningham
11 books10 followersMy latest book, ALONGSIDE HAMILTON, is historical fiction. It tells the story of two unlikely friends who go to Cuba to fight in the Spanish-American War. Rory Mac, a poor, fatherless former newsboy goes to rescue his first true love, a Cuban heroine. Hamilton "Ton" Fish Jr. goes out of principle, to free Cuba. But they go together, and they go as members of Teddy Roosevelt’s famed Rough Riders, the most uncommon lot of soldiers America has ever seen. Together they face up to the incredible possibilities and harsh realities of life and come to represent the magnificent potential of America itself.
Prior, I wrote FALLEN STARS, which looks at the startling lives & remarkable times of five war-hero American athletes who died in military service from the late 19th century Spanish-American war to America's 21st century war in Afghanistan. The men covered in FALLEN STARS are Pat Tillman (NFL standout who died serving in Afghanistan), Bob Kalsu (Okla. Sooner All-American, only NFL player killed in Vietnam War), Nile Kinnick (Heisman Trophy winner, World War II pilot), Hobey Baker (WWI pilot, Princeton football standout, hockey great), and Ham Fish (crew champion, boxer, first Rough Rider killed in the Spanish-American War).
The 21st CENTURY ADVENTURES of HUCKLEBERRY FINN, covers the remarkable story of how, one-hundred and seventy years after falling into an Arctic ice hole, Huck Finn is discovered, thawed out, and brought back to life, unleashing his original personality upon the modern world.
UNDERBELLY HOOPS is a memoir about my days playing professional basketball in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA). AMERICAN HOOPS covers the history of the U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball team from Berlin to Beijing. And BEFORE THE CURSE is a collection of vintage Chicago Cubs articles, with introductions to the articles by Dr. Randy Roberts and me.
In 2006, I earned a Ph.D. in history from Purdue, and in 2013 I completed an MBA at DePaul. I'm the head men's basketball coach at the University of the Incarnate Word. My wife Christy, essentially superwoman, and I have six children. Word Up!
Prior, I wrote FALLEN STARS, which looks at the startling lives & remarkable times of five war-hero American athletes who died in military service from the late 19th century Spanish-American war to America's 21st century war in Afghanistan. The men covered in FALLEN STARS are Pat Tillman (NFL standout who died serving in Afghanistan), Bob Kalsu (Okla. Sooner All-American, only NFL player killed in Vietnam War), Nile Kinnick (Heisman Trophy winner, World War II pilot), Hobey Baker (WWI pilot, Princeton football standout, hockey great), and Ham Fish (crew champion, boxer, first Rough Rider killed in the Spanish-American War).
The 21st CENTURY ADVENTURES of HUCKLEBERRY FINN, covers the remarkable story of how, one-hundred and seventy years after falling into an Arctic ice hole, Huck Finn is discovered, thawed out, and brought back to life, unleashing his original personality upon the modern world.
UNDERBELLY HOOPS is a memoir about my days playing professional basketball in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA). AMERICAN HOOPS covers the history of the U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball team from Berlin to Beijing. And BEFORE THE CURSE is a collection of vintage Chicago Cubs articles, with introductions to the articles by Dr. Randy Roberts and me.
In 2006, I earned a Ph.D. in history from Purdue, and in 2013 I completed an MBA at DePaul. I'm the head men's basketball coach at the University of the Incarnate Word. My wife Christy, essentially superwoman, and I have six children. Word Up!
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