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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Books for Living
$910 -
The Untold Story of the Talking Book
$1,048 -
Woodward and Bernstein: The People’s Right to Know
$6,300 -
Christina Stead’s the Man Who Loved Children
$523 -
The Price of Illusion: A Memoir
$1,050 -
I’m Your Biggest Fan: Awkward Encounters & Assorted Misadventures in Celebrity Journalism
$442 -
The Lady With the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire
$498 -
Joe Simon: My Life in Comics
$523 -
Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago
$980 -
Firing Lines: Three Canadian Women Write the First World War
$875 -
Tangled Bylines: A Father and Son Cover the Twentieth Century
$943 -
Books for Living
$908 -
The Mercenary Mandarin: How a British Adventurer Became a General in Qing-Dynasty China
$628 -
Mass Disruption: Thirty Years on the Front Lines of a Media Revolution
$630 -
All Tomorrow’s Parties
$560 -
The Untold Story of the Talking Book: Library Edition
$3,150 -
Legendary Sports Writers of the Golden Age: Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Shirley Povich, and W. C. Heinz
$1,575 -
Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press
$873 -
Crusading Iowa Journalist Verne Marshall: Exposing Graft and the 1936 Pulitzer Prize
$770 -
Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman
$595

