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    Paper Lion: Confessions of a last-string quarterback

    George Plimpton

    In the mid-1960s, George Plimpton talked his way into the Detroit Lions’ pre-season training camp and in doing so set the bar for participatory sports journalism.

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    The Best of Plimpton

    George Plimpton

    Featuring such classic pieces as The Curious Case of Sidd Finch and The Plimpton Small-Ball Theory of Sports Writing –the smaller the ball the better the writing–this is a rich…

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    As Told at The Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales Of Adventure

    Tales of exploration from the world’s most exclusive club.

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    El Hombre Que Estuvo Alli: Lo Mejor de George Plimpton

    George Plimpton

    The complete essays and journalistic works of George Plimpton, prefaced by Plimpton himself, is the best way to rediscover one of the great voices of American New Journalism. Especially renowned…

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    Out of my League: An Amateur’s Ordeal in Professional Baseball

    George Plimpton

    The original foray into participatory journalism that started it all, Out of my League announced George Plimpton as a giant of sports journalism, able to penetrate deep into the very…

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    Truman Capote

    George Plimpton

    In the tradition of his smash bestseller Edie , Plimpton brings the endlessly intriguing Truman Capote to life via a dizzying cast of oral biographers, including Lauren Bacall, Katherine Graham…

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    Shadow Box: An Amateur in the Ring

    George Plimpton

    From the author of Paper Lion Stepping into the ring against light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore, George Plimpton pauses to wonder what ever induced him to become a participatory journalist.

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    The Bogey Man: A Month on the PGA Tour

    George Plimpton

    From the author of Paper Lion What happens when a weekend athlete - of average skill at best - joins the professional golf circuit?

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    Mad Ducks and Bears: Football Revisited

    George Plimpton

    From the author of Paper Lion Following his turn as a Detroit Lions rookie in Paper Lion, George Plimpton returns to the field of American football and focuses on the…

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    Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintences and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career

    George Plimpton

    In the tradition of his smash bestseller Edie , Plimpton brings the endlessly intriguing Truman Capote to life via a dizzying cast of oral biographers, including Lauren Bacall, Katherine Graham…

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    Squash: A History of the Game

    James Zug

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    Out of My League: The Classic Account of an Amateur’s Ordeal in Professional Baseball

    George Plimpton

    Originally published by Harper and Brothers, 1961.

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    The Bogey Man: A Month on the PGA Tour

    George Plimpton

    Originally published: New York: HarperCollins, 1968.

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    Shadow Box: An Amateur in the Ring

    George Plimpton

    Originally published: New York: Putnam, 1977.

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    Open Net: A Professional Amateur in the World of Big-Time Hockey

    George Plimpton

    Originally published: New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1985.

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    One for the Record: The Inside Story of Hank Aaron’s Chase for the Home Run Record

    George Plimpton

    Originally published by Bantam Books, 1974.

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    The Paris Review Book: Of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, the Art of Writing, and Everything Else in the World Since 1953

    To commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Paris Review, this breathtakingly diverse and illuminating anthology has been assembled, where the greatest writers write and speak upon the greatest subjects of…

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    As Told At the Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales Of Adventure

    George Plimpton

    Tales of exploration from the world’s most exclusive club.

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    Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback

    George Plimpton

    A literary classic about the author’s attempt at playing professional football for the Detroit Lions.

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    The Hornbook And Its Use In America

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

    This work is in the "public…

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    Mad Ducks and Bears: Football Revisited

    George Plimpton

    Originally published: New York: Random House, 1973.

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    Gentlemen Volunteers: The Story of the American Ambulance Drivers in the First World War

    Arlen J. Hansen

    The tale of the American volunteer ambulance drivers of the First World…

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    Iron Mike

    Featuring contributions by Joyce Carol Oates, Pete Hamill, Jonathan Yardley, and others, Iron Mike collects the best writing on the tumultuous 15-year career of the most reviled and idolized athlete…

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    New York Characters

    Gillian Zoe Segal

    Pays tribute to the wonderful collection of characters that are responsible for making New York a vibrant, diverse, and thrilling place, from local celebrities and famous personalities to extremely odd…

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    I Shot New York

    Ralph Ginzburg,Shoshana Ginzburg

    The news photographer Ralph Ginzburg assigned himself the task of photographing a different news event in New York City on each of 365 consecutive days. The result is this collection…

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    Milking the Moon: A Southerner’s Story of Life on the Planet

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    FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD This sumptuous oral biography of Eugene Walter, the best-known man you’ve never heard of, is an eyewitness history of the heart of…

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    Playwrights at Work

    John Lahr

    In this volume, some 20th-century playwrights talk about their craft. From the experiences that inspire their work to their experiences of their work, the interviewees include Harold Pinter, Tennessee Williams…

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    Edie: American Girl

    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 -…

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    George, Being George: George Plimpton’s Life as Told, Admired, Deplored, and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals–and a Few Unappreciative Observers

    From literary icons like William Styron and Calvin Trillin to ex-wives and lifelong friends, no holds are barred in this unique, honest account of George Plimpton–contributed by the people who…

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    George Berkeley: Lectures Delivered Before the Philosophical Union of the University of California

    Additional Editor Is Benson Mates. Contributing Authors Include Richard Popkin, Celestine Sullivan, Edward Strong, And Many Others. University Of California Publications In Philosophy, V29. Lectures Delivered Before The Philosophical Union…

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    Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback

    George Plimpton

    A literary classic about the author’s attempt at playing professional football for the Detroit Lions.

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    Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback

    George Plimpton

    This paperback edition commemorates the 40th anniversary of the original publication of this sports classic.

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    Beat Writers at Work

    Rick Moody

    Collected here are interviews with the great Beat and Black Mountain writers from the pages of The Paris Review . In this new compendium, the writers describe their art and…

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    Latin American Writers at Work

    George Plimpton

    Fourth in the series of the Modern Library Paris Review Writers at Work Series , this book includes an introduction by Derek Walcott. It is a Modern Library Original.

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