Author: Nelson W. Aldrich
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: george, lovers, acquaintances, rivals, observers, unappreciative, relatives, friends, plimpton, life, admired, deplored, envied
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2009-10-27
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0812974182
ISBN-13: 9780812974188

Contributors include Harold Bloom, Jules Feiffer, John Guare, Norman Mailer, Peter Matthiessen, Maggie Paley, Richard Price, James Salter, Robert Silvers, William Styron, Gay Talese, Calvin Trillin, Gore Vidal, and 200 other Plimpton intimatesNorman Mailer said that George Plimpton was the best-loved man in New York. This book is the party that was George’s life–and it’s a big one–attended by scores of famous people, as well as lesser-known intimates and acquaintances. They talk about his life: its privileged beginnings, its wild and triumphant middle, its brave, sad end. They say that

Authors:George Orwell, George Packer,
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: works, george, orwell, complete, essays, unpleasant, facts, narrative, facing
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-10-13
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0151013616
ISBN-13: 9780151013616

George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist. From his earliest published article in 1928 to his untimely death in 1950, he produced an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected—and illuminated—the fraught times in which he lived and wrote. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George Packer in his foreword to this new two-volume collection, "it was as natural for Orwell to propose, generalize, qualify, argue, judge—in short, to think—as it was for Yeats to versify or Dickens to invent."Facing Unpleasant Facts charts Orwell’s development as a master

Authors:David M. Horton, George R. Nielsen,
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Keywords: george, texas, crime, north, criminal, justice, series, system, prison, beto, john, rise, modern, walking, life
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-08-17
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1574411993
ISBN-13: 9781574411997

George John Beto (1916-1991) is best known for his contributions to criminal justice, but his fame is not limited to this field. "Walking George", authored by two of his former students, David M. Horton and George R. Nielsen, examines the entire life of Beto and his many achievements in the fields of both education and criminal justice - and how he wedded the two whenever possible. Beto initially studied to become a Lutheran pastor but instead was called to teach at Concordia Lutheran College in Austin, Texas. His successes there led him to revitalize a seminary in Springfield, Illinois, for t

Authors:George Santayana, William G. Holzberger,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: santayana, george, works, eight, book, definitive, volume, letters
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2008-07-31
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0262195712
ISBN-13: 9780262195713

Winner, Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters given by the Modern Language Association (MLA). This final volume of Santayana’s letters spans the last five years of the philosopher’s life. Despite the increasing infirmities of age and illness, Santayana continued to be remarkably productive during these years, working steadily until September 1952, when he died of stomach cancer, just three months short of his eighty-ninth birthday. Still living in the nursing home run by the "Blue Sisters" of the Little Company of Mary in Rome (now with such prewar luxurie

Authors:George Santayana, William G. Holzberger,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: santayana, george, works, seven, book, definitive, volume, letters
Number of Pages: 645
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0262195569
ISBN-13: 9780262195560

Winner, Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters given by the Modern Language Association (MLA). This penultimate volume of Santayana’s letters chronicles Santayana’s life during a difficult time—the war years and the immediate postwar period. The advent of World War II left Santayana isolated in Rome, and the difficulties of wartime travel across borders forced him to abandon plans to move to more agreeable locations in Switzerland or Spain. During these years, Santayana lived in a single room in a nursing home run by the "Blue Sisters" of the Little Company of Ma

Authors:George Santayana, William G. Holzberger,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: santayana, george, works, five, book, definitive, volume, letters
Number of Pages: 687
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: $63.00
ISBN-10: 0262194902
ISBN-13: 9780262194907

During the period covered by this book, George Santayana had settled permanently in Rome. His best-selling novel, The Last Puritan, was published in London in 1935 and in the United States in 1936, where it was chosen as a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. In 1936 Santayana became one of the few philosophers ever to appear on the front cover of Time magazine. His growing influence was evidenced further by two other 1936 publications, Obiter Scripta: Lectures, Essays and Reviews and Philosophy of Santayana: Selections From the Works of George Santayana. Also during this year the first six volum

Authors:George Foreman, Joel Engel,
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: george, foreman, autobiography
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2000-10-11
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0743201124
ISBN-13: 9780743201124

THE CANDID AND INSPIRING STORY OF THE RISE OF A GREAT SPORTS LEGEND, FROM HIS THRILLING CONFRONTATIONS IN THE RING TO HIS PRIVATE STRUGGLES TO ACHIEVE SPIRITUAL WHOLENESS No athlete has captured America’s dreams and imagination like George Foreman. In 1968, when he was barely out of his teens, he startled the world by winning an Olympic gold medal in Mexico City. In his early twenties, he destroyed the seemingly invincible Joe Frazier to capture boxing’s heavyweight championship. In Zaire, not long after, he was on the opposite end of a startling upset, losing his crown to Muh