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The Princeton anthology of writing : favorite pieces by the Ferris/McGraw writers at Princeton University / John McPhee and Carol Rigolot, editors.
LIBRA PS536.2 .P756 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Princeton University--Faculty.
- Princeton University.
- Journalism and literature.
- United States.
- Reportage literature, American.
- American prose literature--20th century.
- American prose literature.
- Journalism and literature--United States.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 373 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- "This book is a delight for the general reader as well as an excellent resource for undergraduate or graduate students of journalism. It represents many of the finest nonfiction writers of the past several decades. There are many treasures here--and some real surprises. This is compelling stuff, wide ranging and beautifully balanced."--Evan Cornog, School of Journalism, Columbia University
- "The range, care, and thoughtfulness with which this volume has been edited is hugely impressive. It is an extraordinary work whose greatest strength lies in the selections themselves. It will be exceptionally useful as a supplemental text for undergraduate instruction and is very likely to find a receptive audience among the public as well."--David Abrahamson, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
- Contents:
- Beauty for Ashes / David K. Shipler 3
- A View of Mountains / Jonathan Schell 9
- The Boat / Haynes Johnson 11
- Josephine Guezou / Jane Kramer 18
- Twentieth-Century Odyssey / Robert Donovan 22
- A Farewell to Hue / Don Oberdorfer 29
- Looking for Trouble / Leslie Cockburn 36
- The Forthright Estate: In Praise of the Newspaper Column / Karl E. Meyer 41
- Code of Ethics / Roger Mudd 46
- Father of His Country / Paul Taylor 51
- Workplace Discrimination / Stuart S. Taylor Jr. 59
- Harassment by Kids: Are More Lawsuits the Answer? / Stuart S. Taylor Jr. 62
- Driver's Education / Larry L. King 66
- People and Character / Irving Dilliard 72
- Saving The Nation / Victor Navasky 75
- Faith, Sex, Mystery / Richard Gilman 87
- My Own Vox Pop / Richard Stengel 94
- Stardom? They'd Rather Pass / Richard Stengel 95
- Space Invaders / Richard Stengel 97
- The Country Is at Crisis Point / Charlotte Grimes 99
- Memo to Conservatives: Family Ties Are the Strongest Values of All / Charlotte Grimes 104
- All Sentient Beings / Barbara Crossette 107
- When Worlds Collide / Ronald Steel 114
- First Born, Fast Grown: The Manful Life of Nicholas, 10 / Isabel Wilkerson 117
- Massacre at Columbine High School / Nancy Gibbs 123
- Gender in the Classroom / Deborah Tannen 126
- Cop-Out on Class: Why Private Schools Are Today's Draft Deferments / Jonathan Alter 131
- It's a Wonderful Legacy / Jonathan Alter 133
- The Era of Bad Feeling / Jonathan Alter 134
- Two of a Kind / Jim Hoagland 137
- Truly a Nation ... / Jim Hoagland 139
- A Little Homer at the Beach / Jim Hoagland 140
- Why I Can't Write Fiction / Lawrence Weschler 143
- On Robert Lowell / Blair Clark 147
- The Miss Dennis School of Writing / Alice Steinbach 151
- Meeting Mahfouz / Milton Viorst 156
- Critic's Notebook / Richard Eder 163
- L'Atalante / Terrence Rafferty 166
- Annie of Corsica / Jeremy Bernstein 170
- Two Deaths
- One Then, One Now: On Losing a Father, a Newspaperman / John Darnton 176
- Heavy Lifting / Geoffrey Wolff 179
- Lenin Peak / Christopher Wren 193
- From So Simple a Beginning / Jonathan Weiner 198
- Pioneer 10 Pushes Beyond Goals, Into the Unknown / John Noble Wilford 204
- Get Set to Say Hi to the Neighbors / John Noble Wilford 207
- Left the Light On, But Nobody Came / Malcolm W. Browne 209
- The Invisible Flying Cat / Malcolm W. Browne 210
- At Least the Monsters Survive / Malcolm W. Browne 212
- Beauty, as Scientists Behold It / Malcolm W. Browne 213
- Manual Labor / James Gleick 216
- Maintenance Not Included / James Gleick 218
- At Last, Shout of "Eureka!" in Age-Old Math Mystery / Gina Kolata 221
- Scientist Reports First Cloning Ever of Adult Mammal / Gina Kolata 223
- What If We Succeed? / Walter Sullivan 225
- Deus Conservat Omnia / Harrison E. Salisbury 234
- Introduction to Morgan, American Financier / Jean Strouse 242
- Down Twenty-Three Steps / Robert K. Massie 249
- The Forest Coup / David Remnick 252
- Pictures from the Rubble Patch / Jonathan Sanders 259
- A Corner of Russia / Serge Schmemann 264
- Goodbye to Rafah / Gloria Emerson 268
- Mock Democracy / William Greider 272
- The Big Barbecue / Landon Y. Jones Jr. 281
- The Rope Line / Samuel G. Freedman 289
- Nixonland / Francine du Plessix Gray 298
- Consultants: The Men Who Came to Dinner / Walter Guzzardi 306
- Class Act / Jeremy Treglown 316
- The New American Heartland / John Herbers 321
- The 1950s / Charles Kaiser 325
- Jazz: Music Beyond Time and Nations / Nat Hentoff 330
- Miracle Kid / Lucinda Franks 335
- Travels of the Rock / John McPhee 351.
- Notes:
- Anthology of writings of journalists who served as visiting McGraw Professors in Writing and Ferris Professors of Journalism at Princeton University, 1963-1999.
- Includes index of authors.
- ISBN:
- 069108680X
- 0691086818
- OCLC:
- 47946687
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