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9780691086811

The Princeton Anthology of Writing

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    9780691086811

  • ISBN10:

    0691086818

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-07-16
  • Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

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Summary

In 1957--long before colleges awarded degrees in creative nonfiction and back when newspaper writing's reputation was tainted by the fish it wrapped--Princeton began honoring talented literary journalists. Since then, fifty-nine of the finest, most dedicated, and most decorated nonfiction writers have held the Ferris and McGraw professorships. This monumental volume harbors their favorite and often most influential works. Each contribution is rewarding reading, and collectively the selections validate journalism's ascent into the esteem of the academy and the reading public. Necessarily eclectic and delightfully idiosyncratic, the fifty-nine pieces are long and short, political and personal, comic and deadly serious. Students will be provoked by William Greider's pointed critique of the democracy industry, eerily entertained by Leslie Cockburn's fraternization with the Cali cartel, inspired by David K. Shipler's thoughts on race, unsettled by Haynes Johnson's account of Bay of Pigs survivors, and moved by Lucinda Frank's essay on a mother fighting to save a child born with birth defects. Many of the essays are finely crafted portraits: Charlotte Grimes's biography of her grandmother, Blair Clark's obituary for Robert Lowell, and Jane Kramer's affecting story of a woman hero of the French Resistance. Other contributions to savor include Harrison Salisbury on the siege of Leningrad, Landon Jones on the 1950s, Christopher Wren on Soviet mountaineering, James Gleick on technology, Gloria Emerson on Vietnam, Gina Kolata on Fermat's last theorem, and Roger Mudd on the media. Whether approached chronologically, thematically, randomly, or, as the editors order them, more intuitively, each suggests a perfect evening reading. Designed for students as well as general readers,The Princeton Anthology of Writingsplendidly attests to the elegance, eloquence, and endurance of fine nonfiction.

Table of Contents

Preface v
John McPhee
Beauty for Ashes
3(6)
David K. Shipler
A View of Mountains
9(2)
Jonathan Schell
The Boat
11(7)
Haynes Johnson
Josephine Guezou
18(4)
Jane Kramer
Twentieth-Century Odyssey
22(7)
Robert Donovan
A Farewell to Hue
29(7)
Don Oberdorfer
Looking for Trouble
36(5)
Leslie Cockburn
The Forthright Estate: In Praise of the Newspaper Column
41(5)
Karl E. Meyer
Code of Ethics
46(5)
Roger Mudd
Father of His Country
51(8)
Paul Taylor
Workplace Discrimination
59(7)
Stuart S. Taylor Jr.
Harassment by Kids: Are More Lawsuits the Answer?
62(4)
Driver's Education
66(6)
Larry L. King
People and Character
72(3)
Irving Dilliard
Saving The Nation
75(12)
Victor Navasky
Faith, Sex, Mystery
87(7)
Richard Gilman
My Own Vox Pop
94(5)
Richard Stengel
Stardom? They'd Rather Pass
95(2)
Space Invaders
97(2)
The Country Is at Crisis Point
99(8)
Charlotte Grimes
Memo to Conservatives: Family Ties Are the Strongest Values of All
104(3)
All Sentient Beings
107(7)
Barbara Crossette
When Worlds Collide
114(3)
Ronald Steel
First Born, Fast Grown: The Manful Life of Nicholas, 10
117(6)
Isabel Wilkerson
Massacre at Columbine High School
123(3)
Nancy Gibbs
Gender in the Classroom
126(5)
Deborah Tannen
Cop-Out on Class: Why Private Schools Are Today's Draft Deferments
131(6)
Jonathan Alter
It's a Wonderful Legacy
133(1)
The Era of Bad Feeling
134(3)
Two of a Kind
137(6)
Jim Hoagland
Truly a Nation...
139(1)
A Little Homer at the Beach
140(3)
Why I Can't Write Fiction
143(4)
Lawrence Weschler
On Robert Lowell
147(4)
Blair Clark
The Miss Dennis School of Writing
151(5)
Alice Steinbach
Meeting Mahfouz
156(7)
Milton Viorst
Critic's Notebook
163(3)
Richard Eder
L' Atalante
166(4)
Terrence Rafferty
Annie of Corsica
170(6)
Jeremy Bernstein
Two Deaths---One Then, One Now: On Losing a Father, A Newspaperman
176(3)
John Darnton
Heavy Lifting
179(14)
Geoffrey Wolff
Lenin Peak
193(5)
Christopher Wren
From So Simple a Beginning
198(6)
Jonathan Weiner
Pioneer 10 Pushes Beyond Goals, Into the Unknown
204(5)
John Noble Wilford
Get Set to Say Hi to the Neighbors
207(2)
Left the Light On, But Nobody Came
209(7)
Malcolm W. Browne
The Invisible Flying Cat
210(2)
At Least the Monsters Survive
212(1)
Beauty, as Scientists Behold It
213(3)
Manual Labor
216(5)
James Gleick
Maintenance Not Included
218(3)
At Last, Shout of ``Eureka!'' in Age-Old Math Mystery
221(4)
Gina Kolata
Scientist Reports First Cloning Ever of Adult Mammal
223(2)
What If We Succeed?
225(9)
Walter Sullivan
Deus Conservat Omnia
234(8)
Harrison E. Salisbury
Introduction to Morgan, American Financier
242(7)
Jean Strouse
Down Twenty-Three Steps
249(3)
Robert K. Massie
The Forest Coup
252(7)
David Remnick
Pictures from the Rubble Patch
259(5)
Jonathan Sanders
A Corner of Russia
264(4)
Serge Schmemann
Goodbye to Rafah
268(4)
Gloria Emerson
Mock Democracy
272(9)
William Greider
The Big Barbecue
281(8)
Landon Y. Jones Jr.
The Rope Line
289(9)
Samuel G. Freedman
Nixonland
298(8)
Francine Du Plessix Gray
Consultants: The Men Who Came to Dinner
306(10)
Walter Guzzardi
Class Act
316(5)
Jeremy Treglown
The New American Heartland
321(4)
John Herbers
The 1950s
325(5)
Charles Kaiser
Jazz, Music Beyond Time and Nations
330(5)
Nat Hentoff
Miracle Kid
335(16)
Lucinda Franks
Travels of the Rock
351(18)
John McPhee
Acknowledgments 369(4)
Author Index 373

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