The complete essays and journalistic works of George Plimpton, prefaced by Plimpton himself, is the best way to rediscover one of the great voices of American New Journalism. Especially
renowned for his sports reporting and “participatory journalism,” he brought readers onto the field and into the ring. Also included are several of Plimpton’s celebrity portraits, including
John F. Kennedy and his family, Muhammad Ali, and Hunter S. Thompson.
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A to Z Great Modern Writers
$700 -
Pequeño fracas / Little Failure
$840 -
Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press
$873 -
All Tomorrow’s Parties
$560 -
Whitman’s Drift: Imagining Literary Distribution
$2,925 -
Shooting Straight: Guns, Gays, God, and George Clooney
$1,050 -
Tangled Bylines: A Father and Son Cover the Twentieth Century
$943 -
Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal Fall 2016
$420 -
Woodward and Bernstein: The People’s Right to Know
$6,300 -
My Korean Deli: How I Risked My Career and Mortgaged My Future for a Convenience Store
$910 -
Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press
$595 -
Hazel Brannon Smith: The Female Crusading Scalawag
$1,575 -
Books for Living
$910 -
Operation Yellow Star / Black Thursday
$698 -
Christina Stead’s the Man Who Loved Children
$523 -
Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman
$595 -
Crusading Iowa Journalist Verne Marshall: Exposing Graft and the 1936 Pulitzer Prize
$770 -
Gutenberg’s Fingerprint: Paper, Pixels and the Lasting Impressions of Books
$873 -
Why Poetry
$875 -
The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
$560