Looking Back - Hardcover

Baker, Russell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590170083 ISBN 13: 9781590170083

Publisher: New York Review of Books, 2002

Synopsis

Essays look at the lives of such public figures as Lyndon Johnson, Eugene V. Debs, Joe DiMaggio, and Martin Luther King.

About this title

From the Publisher:

With a keen sense of what they meant to America and brought uniquely to their times, Baker illuminates characters that we hardly know and several that we know all too well. However undeluded he remains by "our national engines of ballyhoo, bushwah, and baloney" and the foibles of the famous, he is also keenly aware of real accomplishment and genuine claims on our attention.

About the Author:

Russell Baker has been a journalist, columnist, and author for over fifty years. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary in 1979 for his nationally syndicated column, and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1983 for his memoir Growing Up. His other books include City on the Potomac (1958), American in Washington (1961), No Cause for Panic (1964), All Things Considered (1965), Our Next President (1968), Poor Russell’s Almanac (1972), The Upside Down Man (1977), So This Is Depravity (1980), The Good Times (1989), and There’s a Country in My Cellar (1990); he is the editor of The Norton Book of Light Verse (1986) and Russell Baker’s Book of American Humor (1993). In 1993 he replaced Alastair Cooke as host of Masterpiece Theatre.

About this edition

• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1590170083
• ISBN 13: 9781590170083
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 185