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  • Growing Up

    de Russell Baker ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir about coming of age in America between the world wars: "So warm, so likable and so disarmingly funny" ( The New York Times).One of the New York Times' "50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years"Ranging from the backwoods of Virginia to a New Jersey commuter town to the city of Baltimore, this remarkable memoir recounts Russell Baker's experience of growing up in pre ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Rescue of Miss Yaskell and Other Pipe Dreams

    de Russell Baker ...
    Humorous essays by the Pulitzer Prize–winning "supreme satirist" ( The Washington Post Book World).This collection of more than a hundred anecdotes and essays from the legendary journalist, New York Times columnist, and author of the bestselling memoir Growing Up offers wise and sharply witty reflections on an extraordinary array of topics, ranging from youth, wealth, the media, and the joy of ... Leer más

    $8.09 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The American Dream

    de Russell Baker ...
    My name is Kaitlyn O'Connor and the story I'm about to tell you is unbelievable, but I know it's true, because it's my story.I'm just a kid who goes to school, and lives in a small town called Ottersprings, Minnesota. I also love history. Maybe you do too, but most people think history is boring! Well this story shows exactly how not boring it is!It all started on a rainy weekend. The kind where ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Good Times

    de Russell Baker ...
    A "superb [and] often hilarious" memoir of a life in journalism, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Growing Up ( The New York Times Book Review)."Baker here recalls his years at the Baltimore Sun, where, on 'starvation wages,' he worked on the police beat, as a rewrite man, feature writer and White House correspondent. Sent to London in 1953 to report on the coronation, he spent the ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • So This is Depravity

    de Russell Baker ...
    "It is not that Russell Baker is funny, his genius is being so true that nothing remains but to laugh." —John Kenneth Galbraith"Baker, like Andy Rooney, looks into things that keep all our lives from being ordinary." —Chattanooga News-Free PressPulitzer Prize-winning columnist Russell Baker has charmed readers with his sharp humor and shrewd commentary. The indelible voice of the bestselling ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World

    A Memoir Anthology

    Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors—some eminent, some less well known—who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories, selected from literary memoirs published between 1982 and 2014, cover episodes from childhood to young adulthood within a spectrum of life-changing experiences. Although diverse ethnically, ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Inventing The Truth

    The Art and Craft of Memoir

    For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs—or is thinking about writing one—this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors, including Annie Dillard, Frank McCourt, and others.The events, memories, and emotions of the past often resist the orderly structure of a book. Inventing the Truth offers wisdom from nine notable memoirists about their process (Ian Frazier searched through ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    New Treasury of Great Humorists

    de Russell Baker ...
    Narrado por Arte Johnson ...

    Abreviado

    3 hora 48 minutos

    From the grand old man of comedy, George Burns, to the up-to-the minute observations of today's everyman, Dave Barry, these great humorists share one thing in common: their very individual, often raucously funny perceptions of the world around them. In this collection, you' ll enjoy witty selections from these witty raconteurs and their acclaimed works:• Russell Baker: The Rescue of Miss Yaskell ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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    There's a Country in My Cellar

    de Russell Baker ...
    Narrado por Arte Johnson ...

    Abreviado

    3 hora 4 minutos

    One of America's most beloved social commentators— Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author Russell Baker— followed up his bestselling memoir, The Good Times, with this collection of his best New York Times columns, dating back to 1962. There' s a Country in My Cellar covers Baker's usual wide range of topics, told in a wonderfully funny style, and many of which are profoundly serious beneath ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Growing Up

    de Russell Baker ...
    Narrado por Corey M. Snow ...

    Completo

    8 hora 19 minutos

    In this heartfelt memoir by the Masterpiece Theatre host, Pulitzer Prize winner, and groundbreaking New York Times columnist, Russell Baker traces his youth in the mountains of rural Virginia.When Baker was only five, his father died. His mother, strong-willed and matriarchal, never looked back. After all, she had three children to raise. These were Depression years, and Mrs. Baker moved her ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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    How other people's ideas rule our lives and how to change it.

    “For much of my life, […] I was unaware that my words echoed a script I was conditioned to follow, that the lights illuminated only that which I expected to see, and that the orchestra was merely a recording that had been playing since long before my birth.” - Nathan J. MurphyIn The Ideas That Rule Us, political theory researcher, author, and technology business owner Nathan J. Murphy takes an ... Leer más

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  • 101 Ways to Draw

    A Field Guide to Drawing Mediums and Techniques

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    Master and combine different media in your drawing—from soft pencils to graphite powder, ballpoint to fiber-tip pens, conté sticks to watercolor pencils.This visual directory of drawing techniques beyond the pencil provides you with the skills to explore and experiment with all the different techniques and mediums. Use it as a handy reference for when you want to know how to use a particular tool, ... Leer más

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