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The Best of Plimpton

By: George Plimpton

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The Best of Plimpton

By: George Plimpton

Collects profiles, essays, articles, and short stories by the American sportswriter.

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Atlantic Monthly Press

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0871135035

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9780871135032

Paper Lion

Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback

By: George Plimpton

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Paper Lion

Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback

By: George Plimpton

The book that made a legend -- and captures America's sport in detail that's never been matched, featuring a foreword by Nicholas Dawidoff and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton Archives. George Plimpton was perhaps best known for Paper Lion, the book that set the bar for participatory sports journalism. With his characteristic wit, Plimpton recounts his experiences in talking his way into training camp with the Detroit Lions, practicing with the team, and taking snaps behind center. His breezy style captures the pressures and tensions rookies confront, the hijinks that pervade when sixty high-strung guys live together in close quarters, and a host of football rites and rituals. One of the funniest and most insightful books ever written on football, Paper Lion is a classic look at the gridiron game and a book The Wall Street Journal calls "a continuous feast...The best book ever about football -- or anything!

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Little, Brown

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0316392677

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9780316392679

The Bogey Man

A Month on the PGA Tour

By: George Plimpton

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The Bogey Man

A Month on the PGA Tour

By: George Plimpton

George Plimpton chronicles his month spent on the PGA tour in The Bogey Man, repackaged and including a foreword by Rick Reilly and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton Archives. What happens when a weekend athlete -- of average skill at best -- joins the professional golf circuit? George Plimpton, one of the finest participatory sports journalists, spent a month of self-imposed torture on the tour to find out. Along the way, he meets amateurs, pros, caddies, officials, fans, and hangers-on. In The Bogey Man, we find golf legends, adventurers, stroke-saving theories, superstitions, and other golfing lore, and best of all, Plimpton's thoughts and experiences -- frustrating, humbling and, sometimes, thrilling -- from the first tee to the last green. This intriguing classic, which remains one of the wittiest books ever written on golf, features Arnold Palmer, Dow Finsterwald, Walter Hagan, and many other golf greats and eccentrics, all doing what they do best.

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270

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Little, Brown

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031632633X

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9780316326339

Mad Ducks and Bears

Football Revisited

By: George Plimpton

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Mad Ducks and Bears

Football Revisited

By: George Plimpton

George Plimpton's follow-up to Paper Lion, one of his personal favorites among his classic books -- repackaged and including a foreword from Steve Almond and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives. In Mad Ducks and Bears, George Plimpton's engaging companion to Paper Lion, Plimpton focuses on two of the most entertaining and roguish linemen and former teammates -- Alex Karras ("Mad Ducks") and John Gordy ("Bears"), both of whom went on to achieve brilliant post-football success. A more reflective, less madcap book than Plimpton's other work, Mad Ducks and Bears is no less truthful and searching. In this fond exploration of football's values and follies, Plimpton rejoins his two teammates to discuss their careers in this brutal but captivating game. The result is an astute exploration into the fascinating lives and motivations of the players at home, in the locker room, and on the field.

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Little, Brown

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031632647X

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9780316326476

The Best of Plimpton

By: George Plimpton

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The Best of Plimpton

By: George Plimpton

Collects profiles, essays, articles, and short stories by the American sportswriter.

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Atlantic Monthly Press

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0871135035

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9780871135032

Edie

American Girl

By: Jean Stein

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Edie

American Girl

By: Jean Stein

When Edie was first published a decade ago, it quickly became an international bestseller. In the sixties Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet--aristocratic, glamorous, and Andy Warhol's superstar. Then at 28 her light fizzled and died from a drug overdose. Alternately thrilling, tragic and horrifying, this book shatters many myths about the American sixties. Photographs.

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Grove Press

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0802134106

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9780802134103

George Plimpton on Sports

By: George Plimpton

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George Plimpton on Sports

By: George Plimpton

A collection of George Plimpton's finest pieces on the contemporary sports scene.

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360

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Lyons Press

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1592280811

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9781592280810

Shadow Box

An Amateur in the Ring

By: George Plimpton

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Shadow Box

An Amateur in the Ring

By: George Plimpton

George Plimpton makes his riskiest foray into participatory journalism -- stepping into the ring against a champion boxer -- in Shadow Box, repackaged and including never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives. Stepping into the ring against light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore, George Plimpton pauses to wonder what ever induced him to become a participatory journalist. Bloodied but unbowed, he holds his own in the bout -- and lives to tell, in this timeless book on boxing and its devotees, among them Ali, Joe Frazier, Ernest Hemingway, and Norman Mailer. Shadow Box is one of Plimpton's most engaging studies of professional sport, told through the eyes of an inquisitive and astute amateur. From the gym, the locker room, ringside, and even in the harsh glare of the ring itself, Plimpton documents what it is like to be a boxer, an artist of mayhem.

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Little, Brown

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0316392685

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9780316392686

The X Factor

By: George Plimpton

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The X Factor

By: George Plimpton

George Plimpton is embarrassed. The noted amateur of odd sporting experience has lost one horseshoe match to George Bush, a match that was as much a test of wills as of skills. Now Bush has invited him back for a rematch. How to avoid humiliation the second time? What is that quality - we'll call it the X Factor - that all winners, from famous athletes to successful CEOs, seem to possess? Plimpton sets out to find it. The quest for this elusive ingredient is both hilarious and informative, leading from the locker room to the boardroom, with several strange stops in between. Plimpton corners superstars like Bill Russell and Billie Jean King, famous coaches, the chairman of American Express, sports doctors, and M and A king Henry Kravis, and puts the same question to all of them: What is it that allows an individual, or a team, to outperform competitors who are no less gifted, mentally and physically? Their answers run the gamut from motivational rage to new-age meditation, and Plimpton slowly pieces together a definition of this mysterious winning quality.

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Whittle Communication

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0962474541

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9780962474545

Truman Capote

In which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career

By: George Plimpton

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Truman Capote

In which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career

By: George Plimpton

Using oral biography, a technique that perfectly matches the style of his subject, George Plimpton blends the voices of Capote's lovers, haters, acquaintances, and colleagues into a highly readable narrative. Here we are present for the entire span of Capote's life: his Southern childhood and his early days in New York; his first literary success with the publication of Other Voices, Other Rooms; his highly active love life; the groundbreaking excitement of In Cold Blood, the first "nonfiction novel"; his years as a jet-setter; and his final days of flagging inspiration, alcoholism, and isolation. All his famous friends and enemies are here: Katherine Graham, Lauren Bacall, Gore Vidal, Joan Didion, William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, Lee Radziwill, John Huston, John Knowles, William F. Buckley, Jr., and dozens of others.

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498

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0330368710

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9780330368711

The X Factor

A Quest for Excellence

By: George Plimpton

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The X Factor

A Quest for Excellence

By: George Plimpton

Celebrated journalist and author George Plimpton sets out to find that elusive quality--which he calls the "X Factor"--that all winners, from famous athletes to successful CEOs, seem to possess. In a quest both hilarious and informative, Plimpton corners sports superstars, famous coaches, successful businesspeople, and others, putting to each the same question: What is it that allows an individual, or a team, to outperform competitors who are no less gifted, mentally and physically? Media pubilcity.

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W. W. Norton

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0393314685

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9780393314687

The Paris Review

By: George Plimpton

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The Paris Review

By: George Plimpton

ncluding interviews with three of the world's best writers for the stage, all of them Pulitzer Prize winners, the winter issue of The Paris Review is devoted to playwrights and the theater. A series of one-act plays from some of the leading emerging playwrights in America and Britain, as well as interviews with Sam Shepard, Wendy Wasserstein, and David Mamet, completes the theater issue. Photos.

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Random House Trade

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0679764186

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9780679764182

Edie

An American Biography

By: Jean Stein,George Plimpton

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Edie

An American Biography

By: Jean Stein,George Plimpton

A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick ‘Exceptionally seductive... You can’t put it down’ LA Times Outrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful - in the 1960s Edie Sedgwick became both an emblem of, and a memorial to, the doomed world spawned by Andy Warhol. Born into a wealthy New England Edie’s childhood was dominated by a brutal but glamourous father. Fleeing to New York, she became an instant celebrity, known to everyone in the literary, artistic and fashionable worlds. She was Warhol's twin soul, his creature, the superstar of his films and, finally, the victim of a life which he created for her. Jean Stein’s classic biography of Edie is an American fable on an epic scale - the story of a short, crowded and vivid life which is also the story of a decade like no other. ‘Edie Sedgwick was the spirit of the sixties, and these pages capture her power to dazzle us... This is the book of the Sixties we have been waiting for’ Norman Mailer

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441

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Random House

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1407053299

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9781407053295

The Paris Review

Strippable

By: George Plimpton

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The Paris Review

Strippable

By: George Plimpton

This issue celebrates the great American tradition of literary humor and investigates the future of the medium. Brendan Gill ponders his varied career in a Writers-at-Work Interview, and reflects on New Yorker humorists from Thurber to Frazier. Also featured: Jay McInerney, Fran Leibowitz, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Howard Stern, and Mona Simpson. Photos & illustrations.

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310

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Random House Trade

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0679763007

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9780679763000

The Crest of the Peacock

Non-European Roots of Mathematics (Third Edition)

By: George Gheverghese Joseph

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The Crest of the Peacock

Non-European Roots of Mathematics (Third Edition)

By: George Gheverghese Joseph

The contents of this book cover the history of mathematics, the beginnings of written mathematics, Egyptian and Mesopotamian mathematics, special topics in Chinese mathematics, and much more.

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593

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Princeton University Press

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0691135266

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9780691135267

To Serve the People

My Life Organizing with Cesar Chavez and the Poor

By: LeRoy Chatfield,George Mariscal

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To Serve the People

My Life Organizing with Cesar Chavez and the Poor

By: LeRoy Chatfield,George Mariscal

In this collection of what the author calls Easy Essays, Chatfield recounts his childhood, explains the social issues that have played a significant role in his life and work, and uncovers the lack of justice he saw all too frequently.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826360874

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9780826360878

Indian Basketry

Forms, Designs, and Symbolism of Native American Basketry

By: George Wharton James

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Indian Basketry

Forms, Designs, and Symbolism of Native American Basketry

By: George Wharton James

Everything there is to know about traditional Native American basket weaving. Native American basket weaving is an intricate and powerful art, representative of the legends and ceremonies of the Indian nations and their cultures. George Wharton James’s Indian Basketry is an invaluable aid for the artist, designer, craftsman, or beginner who wants to recreate authentic and often extinct basket forms and decorative motifs of the Native American peoples. Filled with 355 illustrations and photographs of Native American basket weavers taken at the turn of the twentieth century, this pioneering study—first published in 1901—provides in-depth information about specific aspects of Indian basketry, including: • Its role in legend and ceremony • The origins of forms and designs • Materials and colors used • Weaves and stitches • The symbolism and poetry woven into each basket • Preservation • Tips for the collector • And much more! From Yolo ceremonial baskets to Oraibi sacred trays, Indian Basketry traces the origin, development, and fundamental principles of the basket designs of the major Indian tribes of the southwestern United States and Pacific Coast, along with comments on the basket weaving of a number of other North American tribes.

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546

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Simon and Schuster

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1628739193

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9781628739190

Mathematics Is Not a Spectator Sport

By: George Phillips

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Mathematics Is Not a Spectator Sport

By: George Phillips

Compared to other popular math books, there is more algebraic manipulation, and more applications of algebra in number theory and geometry Presents an exciting variety of topics to motivate beginning students May be used as an introductory course or as background reading

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