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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Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman
$595 -
My Korean Deli: How I Risked My Career and Mortgaged My Future for a Convenience Store
$910 -
Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press
$873 -
Mass Disruption: Thirty Years on the Front Lines of a Media Revolution
$630 -
The Lady With the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire
$498 -
Books for Living
$910 -
Operation Yellow Star / Black Thursday
$1,048 -
Hazel Brannon Smith: The Female Crusading Scalawag
$1,575 -
Barney: Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America’s Maverick Publisher and His Battle Against Censorship
$875 -
Damning Words: The Life and Religious Times of H. L. Mencken
$910 -
The Untold Story of the Talking Book: Library Edition
$3,150 -
The Untold Story of the Talking Book
$1,048 -
Tangled Bylines: A Father and Son Cover the Twentieth Century
$943 -
Pequeño fracas / Little Failure
$840 -
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
$560 -
Books for Living
$908 -
A to Z Great Modern Writers
$700 -
Why Poetry
$875 -
Christina Stead’s the Man Who Loved Children
$523 -
Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope
$945