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1 online resource (xiii, 184 pages). |
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Introduction -- Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan's The tribes of America -- Nicholson Baker on Daniel Defoe's A journal of the plague year -- Dale Maharidge on James Agee's Let us now praise famous men -- Robert Lipsyte on Paul Gallico's Farewell to sport -- Marla Cone on Rachel Carson's Silent spring -- Ben Yagoda on Walter Bernstein's Keep your head down -- Evan Cornog on A. J. Liebling's The earl of Louisiana -- Ted Conover on Stanley Booth's The true adventures of the Rolling Stones -- Jack Shafer on Tom Wolfe's The electric kool-aid acid test -- Naresh Fernandes on Palagummi Sainath's Everybody loves a good drought: stories from India's poorest districts -- Chris Lehmann on Charles Raw, Bruce Page, and Godfrey Hodgson's Do you sincerely want to be rich? -- Connie Schultz on Michael Herr's Dispatches -- Michael Shapiro on Cornelius Ryan's The longest day -- Douglas McCollam on John McPhee's Annals of the former world -- Scott Sherman on Marshall Frady's Wallace -- Gal Beckerman on Rian Malan's My traitor's heart -- John Maxwell Hamilton on Vincent Sheean's Personal history -- Tom Piazza on Norman Mailer's Armies of the night -- Thomas Mallon on William Manchester's The death of a president -- Miles Corwin on Gabriel García Márquez's The story of a shipwrecked sailor -- David Ulin on Joan Didion's Slouching towards Bethlehem -- Justin Peters on Peter Fleming's Brazilian adventure -- Claire Dederer on Betty MacDonald's Anybody can do anything. |
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ISBN |
9780231500586 (e-book) |
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0231500580 (e-book) |
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