What Critics have said about James Dodson's Books:
Ben Hogan: An American Life
“It doesn’t surprise me in the least that this new book on
the life of Ben Hogan is so interesting, all-encompassing, and well-balanced. I
have been impressed with the talent of Jim Dodson, the author of this compelling book, since he worked with me when I did
my autobiography a few years ago. I thought I knew Ben Hogan pretty well, until
this book came along with some previously untold revelations” – Arnold Palmer U.S. Open and British Open
Champion
“At last we meet the real man behind the Ice Mon. Granted unprecedented access to Hogan’s personal documents and closest friends and relatives, Jim
Dodson has produced an extraordinarily intimate and revealing portrait of golf’s most enigmatic star. Not another word need be written about Ben Hogan – this book tells the whole story.” –
George Peper, former Editor-in-Chief, Golf Magazine
"A thrilling psycobiography." -Sports Illustrated
"Dodson's prose is as smooth as Hogan's swing, and his attention to detail
will impress even th most persnickety golf fan. Reading Ben Hogan is tantamount to being out on the course without
having to replace your divots." - Washington Post
"The first Hogan biography to do justice to an enigmatic and complex sports
hero, and as sich, it becomes the instant standard." - Booklist (starred review)
"Impossible to imagine it coul be equalled, let alone bettered." - The
London Times
"Clearly based on relentless research, but this does not weigh it down...the
writing is so silky it draws you on. There is real page-turning power." - The Daily Telegraph
A Golfer's Life (with Arnold Palmer)
"Arnold Palmer has led a rich and singular life and has captured it in
a wonderful book." - New York Times Book Review
"A book fit for a king." - Golf World
"Essential reading." - The Guardian
Final Rounds
"A glinting, lyrical heartbreaking, hilarious pilgrimage." - Yankee Magazine
"Powerful and deeply moving." - Publishers Weekly
"One cannot but be moved by the alternately funny and sad, beautifully
written elegy to a man and a game." - Kirkus Reviews
"Beautiful, deeply moving. I have never read a more eloquent book
about golf as a game where hearts can meet." - Michael Murphy, author of Golf in the Kingdom
"This bittersweet book will fire an arrow through your heart." - London
Sunday Times
Faithful Travelers
"A brilliantly written book by on of America's most gifted writers." -
Terry Kay, author of The Runaway
"Having set a new standard for the writing of family odysseys with his
poignant Final Rounds, James Dodson now raises the bar clean up to heaven. Faithful Travelers is surely
the sweetest father-and-daughter story ever told." - Paul Hemphill, author of The Heart of the Game
"A lovely book - inb the best sense of the word...It is never afraid to
state the simple truth." - The Times of London
The Dewsweepers
"The Dewsweepers captures what is special about golfing friendships
better than anything I've ever read, and I've read my share of golf books." - John Gates, Winston-Salem Journal
"It may e Dodson's best book yet." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Dodson uses a master's skill to tell us alot about golf and even more
about ourselves. The Dewsweepers is an experience to treasure." - Maine Sunday Telegram
The Road to Somewhere
"Remarkable...a touching story of a father's cherished time with his son."
- Publisher's Weekly
"A great,loving embrace of fatherhood." - Kirkus Reviews
"The Road to Somewhere is about travel in Europe, reaching fifty,
and the ineffible thing between a father and his son. It is also an uncommonly companionable and beguiling narrative
that demonstrates, once and again, James Dodson's wit, good sense, humility, and gift for language. It is a measure
of his talent and huane sprit that he can make the reader see Paris with new eyes and love the old city - indeed, the old
continent - all over again." - Geoffrey Norman, author of Two for the Summit
