A collection of witty essays celebrates the petty scam operations uncovered by the author, a New Yorker journalist, throughout the course of his career, including the schemes of such con men as Marty the Clutch and Count de Pennies. Reprint.

Articles from the fifties recreate the atmosphere of past fights and trace the rise of great fighters like Rocky Marciano

Product Description: This collection of A. J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" brings vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate decline...read more

The restaurants of the Latin Quarter and the city rooms of midtown Manhattan the beachhead of Normandy and the boxing gyms of Times Square the trackside haunts of bookmakers and the shadowy redoubts of Southern politicians--these are the places that A.J.Liebling shows to us in his unforgettable New Yorker articles, brought together here so that a new generation of readers might discover Liebling as if for the first time. Born a hundred years ago, Abbott Joseph 'Joe' Liebling was the first of the great New Yorker writers, a colorful and tireless figure who helped set the magazine's urbane style. Today, he is best known as a celebrant of the 'sweet science' of boxing or as a 'feeder' who ravishes the reader with his descriptions of food and wine. But as David Remnick, a Liebling devotee, suggests in his fond and insightful introduction, Liebling was a writer bounded only by his intelligence, taste, and ardor for life. Like his nemesis William Randolph Hearst, he changed the rules of modern journalism, banishing the distinctions between reporting and storytelling, between news and art. Whatever his role, Liebling is a most companionable figure, and to read the pieces in this grand and generous book is to be swept along on a thrilling adventure in a world of confidence men, rogues, press barons and political cronies, with an inimitable writer as one's guide.

Product Description: A. J. Liebling’s coverage of the Second World War for the New Yorker gives us a fresh and unexpected view of the war—stories told in the words of the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who fought it, the civilians who endured it, and the correspondents who covered it...read more

The author shares his memories of Paris in 1926 and 1927 when he was a student there and describes French cuisine, customs, and urban life

Product Description: Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Liebling’s tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found much to admire in the Windy City’s people and culture—its colorful language, its political sophistication, its sense of its own history and specialness, but Liebling offended that city’s image of itself when he discussed its entertainments, its built landscapes, and its mental isolation from the world’s affairs...read more

Product Description: Day by day story of the French Resistance Movement during WWII, written by its active participants, selected and edited by the famous American war correspondent who was intimately familiar with France.

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Essays describe everyday life in wartorn Europe, and depict the experiences of the ordinary American soldier fighting the war

Photographs of fighters in action are accompanied by essays about boxers, specific fights, and the sport of boxing (view table of contents)

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1952 and 1963 deal with the world of boxing, including the Patterson-Johansson championship fight of 1959 and the rise of a young fighter named Muhammad Ali

Product Description: An entertaining book for those who appreciate good writing about books, food, war, and unusual characters. An exemplar of the kind of writing that The New Yorker was known for.

A collection of New Yorker columns describes the ups and downs of life in New York in the 1930s and some of the unusual people who made the city the way it was

Traces the life of Stingo, a journalist, con man, and horse fancier

Presents distinguished journalistic accounts of the Second World War, from the bombing of English cities, to the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, to a profile of the young Lt. John Kennedy, and many other classic reports

A prolific reporter for The New Yorker assesses newspaper articles of the last decades to show that lack of competition, public regulation, and professional criticism have endangered the objectivity of the press

Product Description: In the summer of 1959, A. J. Liebling, veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events which began when Governor Earl K. Long was committed to a mental institution. Captivated by his subject, Liebling remained to write the fascinating yet tragic story of ?Uncle Earl?s? final year in politics...read more