New Releases by George Plimpton

George Plimpton is the author of As Told At the Explorers Club (2020), IDEALISM & THE MODERN AGE (2016), Paper Lion (2016), Mad Ducks and Bears (2016), The Bogey Man (2016).

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As Told At the Explorers Club

release date: Mar 24, 2020
As Told At the Explorers Club
For more than a century, The Explorers Club has been the meeting place for some of the most daring adventurers on the planet. It''s a legendary oasis, where a man just back from the Gobi Desert might kick back and, over some port, have a chat with a fellow off to Bandung.This updated edition includes a new foreword by Richard Wiese, the 44th president of The Explorers Club, and an all-new photo insert that takes readers inside the exclusive club and its world-famous adventure archives. Here then, are some of the best tales ever swapped at that capital of adventure, including: Anthony Fiola on being in close quarters with a polar bear Charles Lindbergh on his famous flight Felix Reisenberg on the Arctic Anne Keenleyside, Ph. D. on cannibalism Roald Amundsen on the explorer Stefansson Mervyn Cowie on hunting killer lions Jean-Marc Boivin on hang-gliding Curtis and Kathleen Saville on oceanic rowing E. W. Deming on Sitting Bull''s mysterious death It''s some of the finest writing on some of the most hair-raising journeys ever made, all selected by the late George Plimpton, himself a member of The Explorers Club.

IDEALISM & THE MODERN AGE

release date: Aug 26, 2016
IDEALISM & THE MODERN AGE
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Paper Lion

release date: Apr 26, 2016
Paper Lion
The book that made a legend -- and captures America''s sport in detail that''s never been matched, featuring a foreword by Nicholas Dawidoff and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton Archives. George Plimpton was perhaps best known for Paper Lion, the book that set the bar for participatory sports journalism. With his characteristic wit, Plimpton recounts his experiences in talking his way into training camp with the Detroit Lions, practicing with the team, and taking snaps behind center. His breezy style captures the pressures and tensions rookies confront, the hijinks that pervade when sixty high-strung guys live together in close quarters, and a host of football rites and rituals. One of the funniest and most insightful books ever written on football, Paper Lion is a classic look at the gridiron game and a book The Wall Street Journal calls "a continuous feast...The best book ever about football -- or anything!"

Mad Ducks and Bears

release date: Apr 26, 2016
Mad Ducks and Bears
George Plimpton''s follow-up to Paper Lion, one of his personal favorites among his classic books -- repackaged and including a foreword from Steve Almond and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives. In Mad Ducks and Bears, George Plimpton''s engaging companion to Paper Lion, Plimpton focuses on two of the most entertaining and roguish linemen and former teammates -- Alex Karras ("Mad Ducks") and John Gordy ("Bears"), both of whom went on to achieve brilliant post-football success. A more reflective, less madcap book than Plimpton''s other work, Mad Ducks and Bears is no less truthful and searching. In this fond exploration of football''s values and follies, Plimpton rejoins his two teammates to discuss their careers in this brutal but captivating game. The result is an astute exploration into the fascinating lives and motivations of the players at home, in the locker room, and on the field.

The Bogey Man

release date: Apr 26, 2016
The Bogey Man
George Plimpton chronicles his month spent on the PGA tour in The Bogey Man, repackaged and including a foreword by Rick Reilly and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton Archives. What happens when a weekend athlete -- of average skill at best -- joins the professional golf circuit? George Plimpton, one of the finest participatory sports journalists, spent a month of self-imposed torture on the tour to find out. Along the way, he meets amateurs, pros, caddies, officials, fans, and hangers-on. In The Bogey Man, we find golf legends, adventurers, stroke-saving theories, superstitions, and other golfing lore, and best of all, Plimpton''s thoughts and experiences -- frustrating, humbling and, sometimes, thrilling -- from the first tee to the last green. This intriguing classic, which remains one of the wittiest books ever written on golf, features Arnold Palmer, Dow Finsterwald, Walter Hagan, and many other golf greats and eccentrics, all doing what they do best.

One for the Record

release date: Apr 26, 2016
One for the Record
The inside story of Hank Aaron''s chase for the home run record, repackaged and with a foreword by Bob Costas and new material from the Plimpton Archives. In One For the Record, George Plimpton recounts Hank Aaron''s thrilling race to become the new home run champion. Amidst media frenzy and death threats, Aaron sought to beat Babe Ruth''s record. In 1974, he finally succeeded. A fascinating examination of the psychology of baseball players, One For the Record gives an absorbing account of the men on the mound who had to face Aaron. But the book''s true genius lies in the portrait of Aaron himself, and his discussions on his philosophy on hitting and the game of baseball.

Presidential Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 1921-1930

Presidential Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 1921-1930
Presidential addresses of one of the largest philosophical societies in the world and the only American philosophical society not devoted to a particular school or philosophical approach. Volume 3 covers the years 1921-1930, including contributions by Eward Scribner Ames, Ralph Barton Perry, Roy Wood Sellars, Harold Chapman Brown, and others, and containing biographies and photographs of the APA presidents, a list of birthplaces, chronology of the APA, a list of universities and colleges closely associated with each president, and name and subject indices.

The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair

release date: Jan 01, 2005
The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair
George Plimpton needed no encouragement. If there was a sport to play, a party to throw, a celebrity to amaze, a fireworks display to ignite, Plimpton was front and center hurling the pitch, popping the corks, lighting the fuse. And then, of course, writing about it with incomparable zest and style. His books made him a legend. "The Paris Review, the magazine he founded and edited, won him a throne in literary heaven. Somehow, in the midst of his self-generated cyclones, Plimpton managed to toss off dazzling essays, profiles, and "New Yorker "Talk of the Town" pieces. This delightful volume collects the very best of Plimpton''s inspired brief "excursions." Whether he was escorting Hunter Thompson to the "Fear and Loathing movie premiere in New York or tracking down the California man who launched himself into the upper atmosphere with nothing but a lawn chair and a bunch of weather balloons, Plimpton had a rare knack for finding stories where no one else thought to look. Who but Plimpton would turn up in Las Vegas, notebook in hand, for the annual porn movie awards gala? Among the many gems collected here are accounts of helping Jackie Kennedy plan an unforgettable children''s birthday party, the time he improvised his way through amateur night at Harlem''s famed Apollo Theater, and how he managed to get himself kicked out of Exeter just weeks before graduation. The grand master of what he called "participatory journalism," George Plimpton followed his bent and his genius down the most unbelievable rabbit holes-but he always came up smiling. This exemplary, utterly captivating volume is a fitting tribute to one of the great literary lives of our time. "From the Hardcoveredition.

Ernest Shackleton

release date: Jan 01, 2003
Ernest Shackleton
Every one of his Antarctic expeditions ended in failure. His life "off the ice" was a series of failed get-rich-quick schemes. And yet the name of Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) remains a byword for charismatic leadership, raw courage, and endurance in the face of overwhelming odds. Perhaps the greatest hero of the heroic age of polar exploration, Shackleton''s crowning achievement was to bring all 28 of his men home safely after their ship was crushed in pack ice in 1915 -- an epic journey capped by an 800-mile small-boat voyage through some of the planet''s roughest waters. In Ernest Shackleton, writer and media personality George Plimpton not only tells Shackleton''s story, but recounts his own recent adventures following Shackleton''s footsteps through the bleak, beautiful seas and islands at the bottom of the world.

Animals in War

release date: Jan 01, 2002
Animals in War
An unforgettable anecdotal survey, by turns deeply moving and beguilingly entertaining, of the surprising roles that animals have played throughout the history of warfare. (SEE QUOTE.)

Pet Peeves, Or, Whatever Happened to Doctor Rawff?

release date: Jan 01, 2000
Pet Peeves, Or, Whatever Happened to Doctor Rawff?
A series of letters written to Dr. Rawff, a pet-problem advice columnist and veterinarian, holds the clues to his mysterious disappearance, and it is up to readers to use the letters to figure out his location.

The X Factor

release date: Jan 26, 1996
The X Factor
Celebrated journalist and author George Plimpton sets out to find that elusive quality--which he calls the "X Factor"--that all winners, from famous athletes to successful CEOs, seem to possess. In a quest both hilarious and informative, Plimpton corners sports superstars, famous coaches, successful businesspeople, and others, putting to each the same question: What is it that allows an individual, or a team, to outperform competitors who are no less gifted, mentally and physically? Media pubilcity.

John Alexander

release date: Jan 01, 1994

Chronicles of Courage

release date: Jan 01, 1993
Chronicles of Courage
Sixteen disabled artists talk about their lives and how art has made a difference to them.

The Paris Review

release date: Dec 12, 1991
The Paris Review
The latest issue of "the biggest ''little magazine'' in history" (Time magazine) is devoted to playwrights and the theater. Paris Review defines where the theater stands today. It includes interviews with three of the world''s best writers for the stage, all Pulitzer Prize-winner, and showcases work from up-and-coming playwrights. Photos and illustrations throughout.

The Writer's Chapbook

release date: Nov 01, 1991
The Writer's Chapbook
The first issue of The Paris Review in 1953 included an interview on the craft of writing with E. M. Forster, perhaps the greatest living author of the time. Subsequent issues carried interviews with, among others, François Mauriac, Graham Greene, Irwin Shaw, William Styron, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner; in the intervening years, many of the world''s most significant writers (Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and John Dos Passos) sat down with The Paris Review. Many of the interviews have been collected in a series of volumes entitled Writers at Work. From these interviews, The Paris Review''s editor, George Plimpton, has selected the best and most illuminating insights that the writers have provided and arranged them by subject rather than by author. The book is divided into four parts: "The Writer: A Profile" (including the sections "On Reading," "On Work Habits," On the Audi- ence," etc.); Part II is "Technical Matters" ("On Style," "On Plot," etc.); Part III is "Different Forms" ("On Biography," "On Journalism"); and Part IV is "The Writer''s Life," covering topics like conferences, courses, and teaching, along with a section in which writers provided portraits of other writers. The Writer''s Chapbook is a fund of observations by writers on writing. These range from marvel- ous one-liners (Eugene O''Neill on critics: "I love every bone in their heads"; T. S. Eliot on editors: "I suppose some editors are failed writers--but so are most writers") to expositions on plot, character, and the technical process of putting pen to paper and doing it for a living. "I don''t even have a plot," says Norman Mailer; Paul Bowles describes writing in bed; Toni Morrison talks about inventing characters; and Edward Albee and Tom Wolfe explain where they discovered the titles for Who''s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Bonfire of the Vanities. This book is a treasure. But beware: What is true for the Writers at Work series holds for The Writer''s Chapbook even more--a reader who picks it up, intending just to dip into it, might not emerge for days.

The Best of Plimpton

release date: Jan 01, 1990
The Best of Plimpton
Collects profiles, essays, articles, and short stories by the American sportswriter.

Fireworks

release date: Jan 01, 1989
Fireworks
Cover title: Fireworks: a history and celebration.

The Curious Case of Sidd Finch

release date: Jan 01, 1988
The Curious Case of Sidd Finch
"Beloved by readers of all ages, this is the timeless and uproarious story of Hayden "Sidd" Finch - an eccentric Buddhist monk pitcher and New York Mets phenom who throws at the unhittable speed of 168 mph. Sidd first exploded onto the scene in the April 1, 1985, issue of Sports Illustrated, in an article that left readers around the world holding their breath. At the time, Sidd couldn''t decide if he wanted to pursue a pitching career. And other questions remained: Was it even possible to throw a baseball at such speeds? Or was it all some kind of cruel joke. If the story were true, what would it mean for the future of the game?" "Here, from the author of such classics as Paper Lion and Out of My League, is the complete and definitive story of Sidd ("two D''s for Siddhartha") Finch. This new edition features the original Sports Illustrated article that started the frenzy and a preface by Jonathan Ames."--BOOK JACKET.

Edie, an American Biography

Edie, an American Biography
When Edie was first published a decade ago, it quickly became an international bestseller. In the sixties Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet--aristocratic, glamorous, and Andy Warhol''s superstar. Then at 28 her light fizzled and died from a drug overdose. Alternately thrilling, tragic and horrifying, this book shatters many myths about the American sixties. Photographs.

Out of My League

Out of My League
Author''s account of his unusual experience pitching in an exhibition game between the National and American Leagues.

The Rabbit's Umbrella

The Rabbit's Umbrella
Depicts in text and illustrations the fanciful adventures of rabbits with umbrellas.

Man and Metaphysics

Man and Metaphysics
Shares a series of lectures on man''s concern with an understanding of his own life and nature, and the total context in which his life is lived.
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