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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Damning Words: The Life and Religious Times of H. L. Mencken
$910 -
Hazel Brannon Smith: The Female Crusading Scalawag
$1,575 -
The Untold Story of the Talking Book
$1,048 -
Books for Living
$910 -
I’m Your Biggest Fan: Awkward Encounters & Assorted Misadventures in Celebrity Journalism
$442 -
Joe Simon: My Life in Comics
$523 -
Whitman’s Drift: Imagining Literary Distribution
$2,925 -
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
$560 -
Pequeño fracas / Little Failure
$840 -
All Tomorrow’s Parties
$560 -
Lit Up: One Reporter, Three Schools, Twenty-Four Books That Can Change Lives
$630 -
Books for Living
$908 -
Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope
$945 -
Operation Yellow Star / Black Thursday
$1,048 -
Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago
$980 -
Dateline Mongolia: An American Journalist in Nomad’s Land
$628 -
The Untold Story of the Talking Book
$1,223 -
Tangled Bylines: A Father and Son Cover the Twentieth Century
$943 -
Operation Yellow Star / Black Thursday
$698 -
Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman
$595

