9781590170885-1590170881-Looking Back (New York Review Books Classics)

Looking Back (New York Review Books Classics)

ISBN-13: 9781590170885
ISBN-10: 1590170881
Author: Russell Baker
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: New York Review Books
Format: Paperback 212 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781590170885
ISBN-10: 1590170881
Author: Russell Baker
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: New York Review Books
Format: Paperback 212 pages

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Looking Back (New York Review Books Classics) (ISBN-13: 9781590170885 and ISBN-10: 1590170881), written by authors Russell Baker, was published by New York Review Books in 2004. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Looking Back (New York Review Books Classics) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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From his youthful days as a delivery boy for William Randolph Hearst’s 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, “gentlemen fallen among brutes”), and those who set their sights on something besides the presidency (Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King, “the one indisputably great American of the century’s second half”).Undeluded by the roar of what he calls “our national engines of ballyhoo, bushwah, and baloney,” 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 America—and on him.
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