BRETT COGBURN. The Life and Times of the Real Rooster Cogburn, The Man who Inspired True Grit. Kensington Books. Trade Paperback, $14, www.kensingtonbooks.com.
Well-researched look at the author’s great-grandfather, who was said to have been part of the inspiration behind the hard-drinking deputy marshal in Charles Portis’s classic Western novel True Grit – and the two hit movies that followed.