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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The Untold Story of the Talking Book: Library Edition
$3,150 -
Lit Up: One Reporter, Three Schools, Twenty-Four Books That Can Change Lives
$630 -
The Cartoons of Evansville’s Karl Kae Knecht: Half a Century of Artistic Activism
$770 -
I’m Your Biggest Fan: Awkward Encounters & Assorted Misadventures in Celebrity Journalism
$442 -
Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press
$873 -
Woodward and Bernstein: The People’s Right to Know
$6,300 -
Senior Service
$1,083 -
Barney: Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America’s Maverick Publisher and His Battle Against Censorship
$875 -
The Untold Story of the Talking Book
$1,048 -
My Korean Deli: How I Risked My Career and Mortgaged My Future for a Convenience Store
$910 -
Books for Living
$910 -
The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
$560 -
Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal Winter 2017
$420 -
Operation Yellow Star / Black Thursday
$1,048 -
Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope
$945 -
Darling, I’m Going to Charlie: A Memoir
$770 -
Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press
$595 -
The Price of Illusion: A Memoir
$1,050 -
All Tomorrow’s Parties
$560 -
Whitman’s Drift: Imagining Literary Distribution
$2,925