Outside Looking In
Autor Garry Willsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 sep 2011
A captivating memoir from the incomparable Garry Wills, "one of the country's most distinguished intellectuals" (The New York Times Book Review)
Illuminating and provocative, Outside Looking In is a compelling chronicle of an original thinker at work in remarkable times. With his dazzling style and journalist's eye for detail, Garry Wills brings history to life. Whether writing about the civil rights movement, 1960s protests, or close-up studies of the people who have shaped our world, only he could bring together in one book Barry Goldwater, Daniel Berrigan, Beverly Sills, Richard Nixon, and John Waters. Wills shares, as only the best raconteurs can, stories of the fascinating people he has closely observed during more than fifty years of reporting.
Illuminating and provocative, Outside Looking In is a compelling chronicle of an original thinker at work in remarkable times. With his dazzling style and journalist's eye for detail, Garry Wills brings history to life. Whether writing about the civil rights movement, 1960s protests, or close-up studies of the people who have shaped our world, only he could bring together in one book Barry Goldwater, Daniel Berrigan, Beverly Sills, Richard Nixon, and John Waters. Wills shares, as only the best raconteurs can, stories of the fascinating people he has closely observed during more than fifty years of reporting.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780143119890
ISBN-10: 0143119893
Pagini: 210
Dimensiuni: 129 x 197 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 0143119893
Pagini: 210
Dimensiuni: 129 x 197 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
Notă biografică
Garry Wills has written many acclaimed works and is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He is professor emeritus of history at Northwestern University and lives in Evanston, Illinois.
Descriere
With his dazzling style and journalist's eye for detail, Wills brings history to life, whether it's the Civil Rights Movement; the protests against the Vietnam War; the presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton; or the set of Oliver Stone's "Nixon."