Books by Bob Luke

Captain Isaac ""Ike"" Emerson, riding high on the international success of his patent, Bromo-Seltzer, lived a storied life of opulence. This first biography of the ""Bromo-Seltzer King"" traces his path from North Carolina Farm boy to Baltimore-based multimillionaire with a penchant for lavish entertaining.

Colored Troops, Union military strategy, and race relations during and after the tumultuous Civil War.

Never one to mince words, Effa Manley once wrote a letter to sportswriter Art Carter, saying that she hoped they could meet soon because "I would like to tell you a lot of things you should know about baseball." From 1936 to 1948, Manley ran the Negro league Newark Eagles that her husband, Abe, owned for roughly a decade.