David Remnick
Author
Publisher
Random House
Physical Desc
xvii, 326 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The bestselling biography of Muhammad Ali, with an Introduction by Salman Rushdie.
On the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he was widely regarded as an irritating freak who danced and talked way too much. Six rounds later Ali was not only the new world heavyweight boxing champion: He was "a new kind of black man" who would shortly transform America's racial politics, its popular...
Author
Language
English
Description
Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick demonstrates how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, then as a Harvard Law School graduate, and finally as President of the United States. "By looking at Obama's political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 276 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The greatest popular songs, whether it's Aretha Franklin singing "Respect" or Bob Dylan performing "Blind Willie McTell," have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In Holding the Note, David Remnick writes about the lives and work of some of the greatest musicians, songwriters, and performers of the past fifty years"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 404 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Devil Problem and Other True Stories is David Remnick's first book since his Pulitzer Prize-winning Lenin's Tomb. While Remnick has continued to visit and report on Russia, he has also written on a wide variety of subjects for the New Yorker, from politics to opera. This work collects the best of these pieces.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 398 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Resurrection plunges the reader directly into the thick of events so that one all but feels Yeltsin's breath upon one's face - he is drunk one day, in command the next, as volatile as the fragmented country he tries to lead. Remnick's new Russia springs to life through vivid portraits of its players: the half-Jewish anti-Semite Zhirinovsky, "a hater, a crank, a nut"; the young (and purged) economist Yegor Gaidar, champion of "shock therapy" and market...
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 582 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An compilation of essays, fiction, and cartoons on the world of food and drink from the pages of The New Yorker features contributions by Susan Orlean, Calvin Trillin, Joan Didion, Anthony Bourdain, John Cheever, and Roald Dahl.
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 541 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate change-including writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and more"--
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxviii, xxii, 724 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Presents the full text of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol's report, which addresses the origins of the insurrection, how it was organized and funded and the role of Donald Trump and other high-ranking officials"--
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 492 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From Tiger Woods to bullfighter Sidney Franklin, from the Chinese Olympics to the U.S. Open, the greatest plays and players, past and present, are all covered in "The Only Game in Town." At "The New Yorker," it's not whether you win or lose--it's how you write about the game.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This second volume of The John McPhee Reader includes material from his eleven books published since 1975, including Coming into the Country, Looking for a Ship, The Control of Nature, and the four books on geology gathering under the title Annals of the Former World: Basin and Range, In Suspect Terrain, Rising from the Plains, and Assembling California.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This new documentary by Academy Award-winning director Kirk Simon celebrates the centenary of the Pulitzers - the revered national award for excellence in journalism and the arts. The Pulitzers have had an immeasurable impact on American sensibility and beyond over the past 100 years. The riveting tales of the winning artists give an insider's view of how these pinnacles of achievement are selected and how the award has the power to change lives and...
Publisher
New Yorker
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
123 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm + 8 videodiscs (sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Celebrates eighty years of the magazine with a collection of eight searchable DVDs that contain every page of The New Yorker from February 1925 through February 2005, accompanied by a companion book filled with highlights.
