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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Publication date
January 1, 2004
Pages
186
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781590170885
ISBN-10
1590170881
Dimensions
0.75 by 5 by 7.75 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Original list price
$12.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: From his youthful days as a delivery boy for William Randolph Hearstâs Baltimore newspapers through his many years as a journalist and commentator, Russell Baker has been a keen observer of American politics and culture. Now, in these eleven essays, all originally published in The New York Review of Books, he looks back on a group of iconic public figures from his own past.
Profiled here are presidents (Lyndon Johnson feuding with Robert F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon in his grasping, spectral exile), would-be presidents (Eugene V. Debs and Barry Goldwater, âgentlemen fallen among brutesâ), and those who set their sights on something besides the presidency (Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King, âthe one indisputably great American of the centuryâs second halfâ).
Undeluded by the roar of what he calls âour national engines of ballyhoo, bushwah, and baloney,â Russell Baker reflects on the strange fascination that these larger-than-life characters have held for the American imagination. With an elegiac yet shrewd sense of their accomplishments both enduring and ephemeral, he traces the impressions they left on twentieth-century Americaâand on him.
Profiled here are presidents (Lyndon Johnson feuding with Robert F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon in his grasping, spectral exile), would-be presidents (Eugene V. Debs and Barry Goldwater, âgentlemen fallen among brutesâ), and those who set their sights on something besides the presidency (Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King, âthe one indisputably great American of the centuryâs second halfâ).
Undeluded by the roar of what he calls âour national engines of ballyhoo, bushwah, and baloney,â Russell Baker reflects on the strange fascination that these larger-than-life characters have held for the American imagination. With an elegiac yet shrewd sense of their accomplishments both enduring and ephemeral, he traces the impressions they left on twentieth-century Americaâand on him.
Editions
Hardcover
from New York Review of Books (April 1, 2002)
9781590170083 | details & prices | 185 pages | 6.00 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $19.95
About: Essays look at the lives of such public figures as Lyndon Johnson, Eugene V.
About: Essays look at the lives of such public figures as Lyndon Johnson, Eugene V.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
from New York Review of Books (January 1, 2004)
9781590170885 | details & prices | 186 pages | 5.00 × 7.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $12.95
About: From his youthful days as a delivery boy for William Randolph Hearstâs Baltimore newspapers through his many years as a journalist and commentator, Russell Baker has been a keen observer of American politics and culture.
About: From his youthful days as a delivery boy for William Randolph Hearstâs Baltimore newspapers through his many years as a journalist and commentator, Russell Baker has been a keen observer of American politics and culture.
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