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A.J. Liebling: The Sweet Science and Other Writings by A J Liebling
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Library of America
For the first time in one volume, Pete Hamill presents five great books that demonstrate A. J. Liebling's extraordinary vitality, humor, and versatility as a writer. Named the best sports book of all time by "Sports Illustrated" in 2002, " The Sweet Science "(1956) is a lively and idiosyncratic portrait ...Show more
American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (the Library of America) by Red Smith
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Category: Sport | Series: Library of America
Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith was the most widely read sportswriter of the last century and the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. From the 1940s to the 1980s, his nationally syndicated columns for the "New York Herald Tribune" and later for "The New York Times" traversed the world of sports ...Show more
Art in America 1945-1970 - Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism: (Library of America #259) by Various
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Category: Art | Series: Library of America
Experience the creative explosion that transformed American art, in the words of the artists, writers, and critics who were there: In the quarter century after the end of World War II, a new generation of painters, sculptors, and photographers transformed the face of American art and shifted the center ...Show more
Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s: Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, on Photography, Illness as Metaphor, Uncollected Essays by Susan Sontag
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Library of America
With the publication of her first book of criticism, "Against Interpretation," in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. "What is important now," she wrote, "is to recover our senses . . . . In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of ...Show more
The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It by Stephen Sears
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Category: History | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
The Library of America's ambitious four-volume series continues with this volume that traces events from January 1862 to January 1863, an unforgettable portrait of the crucial year that turned a secessionist rebellion into a war of emancipation. Including eleven never-before- published pieces, here are ...Show more
The Unknown Kerouac - Rare, Unpublished, and Newly Translated Writings by Jack Kerouac; Todd Tietchen (Editor); Jean-Christophe Cloutier (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Library of America Ser.
In On the Road and other iconic works, Jack Kerouac created a quintessentially American voice and a revolutionary prose style. This remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings reveals as never before the extraordinary literary journey that led to his phenomenal success--a journey with deep r ...Show more
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