Second Read : : Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage / / ed. by James Marcus, The Staff of the Columbia Journalism Review.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Baker, Nicholson,; Beckerman, Gal,; Cone, Marla,; Conover, Ted,; Cornog, Evan,; Corwin, Miles,; Dederer, Claire,; Fernandes, Naresh,; Hamilton, John Maxwell,; Lehmann, Chris,; Lipsyte, Robert,; Maharidge, Dale,; Mallon, Thomas,; Marcus, James,; McCollam, Douglas,; Perlstein, Rick,; Peters, Justin,; Piazza, Tom,; Schafer, Jack,; Schultz, Connie,; Shapiro, Michael,; Sherman, Scott,; Ulin, David,; Yagoda, Ben,
• HerausgeberIn: Marcus, James,; Review, The Staff of the Columbia Journalism,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Columbia Journalism Review Books
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. Launched in 2004 by John Palattella, who was then editor of the magazine's book section, the series also allows authors address such ongoing concerns as the conflict be...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Paul Cowan’s The Tribes of America
• Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year
• James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
• Paul Gallico’s Farewell to Sport
• Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
• Walter Bernstein’s Keep Your Head Down
• A. J. Liebling’s The Earl of Louisiana
• Stanley Booth’s The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
• Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
• Palagummi Sainath’s Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India’s Poorest Districts
• Charles Raw, Bruce Page, & Godfrey Hodgson’s DO YOu Sincerely Want to Be Rich?
• Michael Herr’s Dispatches
• Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day
• John McPhee’s Annals of the Former World
• Marshall Frady’s Wallace
• Rian Malan’s My Traitor’s Heart
• Vincent Sheean’s Personal History
• Norman Mailer’s THE Armies of the Night
• William Manchester’s The Death of a President
• Gabriel García Márquez’s The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
• Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem
• Peter Fleming’s Brazilian Adventure
• Betty MacDonald’s Anybody Can Do Anything
• Contributors