(1991-present) Author of 25+ nonfiction books, including "When Lions Were Kings" (2020), "The Big Jump" (2011), "Detroitland" (2011), "Boneyards" (2010), "Peach" (2005), "A Distant Thunder" (2004), "Henry and Edsel" (2003), and "Joe Louis: The Great Black Hope" (1996).
While serving in the Marine Corps, Bak appeared as a contestant on an episode of "Truth or Consequences," but in that pre-VCR era he never got the chance to watch himself bantering with host Bob Barker on national TV. On the day the show was taped in 1973 he was in transit at Camp Pendleton; by the time the episode aired he was overseas.
