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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Operation Yellow Star / Black Thursday
$698 -
Operation Yellow Star / Black Thursday
$1,048 -
The Untold Story of the Talking Book
$1,223 -
The Price of Illusion: A Memoir
$1,050 -
Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope
$945 -
Darling, I’m Going to Charlie: A Memoir
$770 -
Firing Lines: Three Canadian Women Write the First World War
$875 -
Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal Fall 2016
$420 -
Barney: Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America’s Maverick Publisher and His Battle Against Censorship
$875 -
The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
$560 -
Tangled Bylines: A Father and Son Cover the Twentieth Century
$943 -
Books for Living
$1,225 -
The Cartoons of Evansville’s Karl Kae Knecht: Half a Century of Artistic Activism
$770 -
Why Poetry
$875 -
Valiant for Truth: The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondant
$2,250 -
Legendary Sports Writers of the Golden Age: Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Shirley Povich, and W. C. Heinz
$1,575 -
The Untold Story of the Talking Book: Library Edition
$3,150 -
The Lady With the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire
$498 -
The Mercenary Mandarin: How a British Adventurer Became a General in Qing-Dynasty China
$628 -
All Tomorrow’s Parties
$560

