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 Mercenary Mandarin: How a British Adventurer Became a General in Qing-Dynasty China
$628 -
The Price of Illusion: A Memoir
$1,050 -
Books for Living
$908 -
Woodward and Bernstein: The People’s Right to Know
$6,300 -
Firing Lines: Three Canadian Women Write the First World War
$875 -
Lit Up: One Reporter, Three Schools, Twenty-Four Books That Can Change Lives
$630 -
I’m Your Biggest Fan: Awkward Encounters & Assorted Misadventures in Celebrity Journalism
$442 -
Operation Yellow Star / Black Thursday
$1,048 -
Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press
$873 -
Joe Simon: My Life in Comics
$523 -
Mass Disruption: Thirty Years on the Front Lines of a Media Revolution
$630 -
Shooting Straight: Guns, Gays, God, and George Clooney
$1,050 -
Valiant for Truth: The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondant
$2,250 -
The Lady With the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire
$498 -
Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman
$595 -
The Untold Story of the Talking Book
$1,223 -
The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
$840 -
A to Z Great Modern Writers
$700 -
Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago
$980 -
Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal Winter 2017
$420