Caddy for Life: The Bruce Edwards Story » (Reprint)

Beyond golf's polished surface there lies a world not often seen by the average fan. The caddy sees everything - the ambition, the strategy, the rivalries, the jealousies - that occurs behind the scenes. Award-winning John Feinstein, America's favourite sportswriter, got one of golf's legendary caddies to reveal the secrets behind the most popular sport of our time. Bruce Edwards was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease in January 2003, a progressive disease that attacks nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord, but he dominated coverage of the 2003 US Open. This is a position not usually bestowed on a caddy, but Edwards was no ordinary caddy. In 1973, after forgoing college, Edwards walked on the course behind a young Tom Watson and never looked back. Watson would go on to win eight major titles with Bruce Edwards by his side. Edwards continued to do the job he had dedicated more than half his life to right up to his death in April 2004, aged 49. This is a moving, dramatic and thoughtful book about a life devoted to sports.

Publishers Weekly

Sportswriter Feinstein (Open; The Majors) delivers another solid look at the world of golf and its many interesting personalities, and this newest is his most intimate work so far. His subject is Bruce Edwards, who has been known within golf's tight-knit world as the caddy for over 40 years for legendary pro Tom Watson. Edwards's life story is a microcosm of the changes in modern professional golfing, and this book will thoroughly entertain golf fans. The personal edge in Feinstein's writing comes from the fact-acknowledged immediately in the book's introduction-that Edwards was diagnosed in 2003 with ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease, and that he found this out only 15 days after proposing to the longtime love of his life. Fortunately, Feinstein is skilled at looking at Edwards's professional and personal challenges without becoming mawkish and delivers a solid testament to a life well led. Feinstein nicely captures how Edwards, by caddying for Watson, "became the public face of those changes"-from Edwards's teenage years, working only at individual clubs for small change with a range of golfers competing for purses that were one-thirtieth of what they are now, to today, when a caddy can make an annual income well into six figures working for a successful player. The book, in effect, also offers a fine bio of Watson, as Feinstein recounts in energetic detail the many important tournaments that Watson won with Edwards's assistance. Agent, Esther Newberg. (Apr.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Introduction     7
Ancient Evil
Alexander the Great     15
Herod the Great     22
Tiberius     29
Caligula     34
Attila the Hun     39
Genghis Khan     43
Tamerlane the Great     46
Medieval & Renaissance Monarchs
Vlad the Impaler     49
Richard III     54
Cesare Borgia     60
Henry VIII     66
Suleiman the Magnificent     73
Ivan the Terrible     75
Murad IV     81
Peter the Great     84
Catherine the Great     88
Wicked Women
Jezebel     94
Empress Livia     96
Alice Kyteler     99
Lucrezia Borgia     103
Mary Tudor     107
Elizabeth Bathory     114
La Voisin     117
Madeleine Smith     122
Lizzie Borden     128
Mata Hari     140
Wallis Simpson     143
Jiang Qing     148
Ulrike Meinhof     152
Aileen Wuornos     156
The Nazis
Kitty Schmidt     160
Adolf Hitler     164
Joseph Goebbels     174
Heinrich Himmler     178
Reinhard Heydrich     184
Adolf Eichmann     188
Joseph Mengele     193
Klaus Barbie     199
Evil by Incompetence
Charles I     204
Jack Ketch     210
Nicholas II of Russia     213
Hirohito     217
Modern Tyrants & War Criminals
Leopold II     224
Kaiser Wilhelm II     229
Vladimir Ilich Lenin     234
Joseph Stalin     241
Benito Mussolini     252
Tojo Hideki     262
Ante Pavelic     268
Ho Chi Minh     275
Josip Broz Tito     285
Mao Zedong     289
Kim II Sung     295
Ferdinand Marcos     305
Nicolae Ceausescu     313
Jean-Bedel Bokassa     321
Pol Pot     325
Idi Amin     329
Haile Mengistu     334
Saddam Hussein     337
Reigns of Terror
Tomas de Torquemada     349
Cardinal Richelieu     355
Murat Rais     360
Jean Paul Marat     366
Maxilimilen Robespierre     373
Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier     382
Osama bin Laden     385
Mass Murderers
Sawney Bean     393
Gilles de Rais     397
Jack the Ripper     402
Peter Kurten     413
Fritz Haarman     418
Herman Mudgett     421
Henri Landru     425
Ted Bundy     434
Albert De Salvo     443
Peter Sutcliffe     448
Harold Shipman     453
Single Acts of Evil
John Wilkes Booth     458
George McMahon     468
Lee Harvey Oswald     472
Evil for the Fun of It
Marquis de Sade     481
Aleister Crowley     486
Fakers and Frauds
Horatio Bottomley     498
Charles Dawson     506
Han van Meegeren     516
Tom Keating     521
Organized Crime
Henry Morgan     526
Salvatore 'Lucky' Luciano     535
Robert Maxwell     542
Ronnie & Reggie Kray     548
Evil by Doing Nothing
Captain Stanley Lord     559