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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Why Poetry
$875 -
Whitman’s Drift: Imagining Literary Distribution
$2,925 -
Interactive Books: Playful Media Before Pop-Ups
$6,750 -
Woodward and Bernstein: The People’s Right to Know
$6,300 -
Hazel Brannon Smith: The Female Crusading Scalawag
$1,575 -
Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal Fall 2016
$420 -
Joe Simon: My Life in Comics
$523 -
Darling, I’m Going to Charlie: A Memoir
$770 -
Christina Stead’s the Man Who Loved Children
$523 -
The Untold Story of the Talking Book
$1,048 -
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
$560 -
Pequeño fracas / Little Failure
$840 -
Gutenberg’s Fingerprint: Paper, Pixels and the Lasting Impressions of Books
$873 -
My Korean Deli: How I Risked My Career and Mortgaged My Future for a Convenience Store
$910 -
Books for Living
$1,225 -
Barney: Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America’s Maverick Publisher and His Battle Against Censorship
$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 -
Tangled Bylines: A Father and Son Cover the Twentieth Century
$943 -
Les Plus Anciens Documents Originaux De Pologne: Jusqu’en 1212 Environ
$36,000

