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 Lady With the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire
$498 -
Books for Living
$910 -
Books for Living
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The Untold Story of the Talking Book: Library Edition
$3,150 -
The Untold Story of the Talking Book
$1,223 -
Lit Up: One Reporter, Three Schools, Twenty-Four Books That Can Change Lives
$630 -
A Train Through Time: A Life, Real and Imagined
$875 -
Joe Simon: My Life in Comics
$523 -
Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope
$945 -
Books for Living
$908 -
Tangled Bylines: A Father and Son Cover the Twentieth Century
$943 -
Why Poetry
$875 -
Valiant for Truth: The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondant
$2,250 -
My Korean Deli: How I Risked My Career and Mortgaged My Future for a Convenience Store
$910 -
Pequeño fracas / Little Failure
$840 -
Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press
$873 -
Operation Yellow Star / Black Thursday
$1,048 -
Christina Stead’s the Man Who Loved Children
$523 -
Barney: Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America’s Maverick Publisher and His Battle Against Censorship
$875 -
Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago
$980