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Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker
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Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker (2006) (edit title/settings)

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From one of the most gifted and widely read journalists at work today, a volume that collects the best of his pieces from The New Yorker over the last fifteen years. David Remnick is fascinated by the men and women obsessed with creating the history of our era as well as those intent on... read more

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My first regular reporting job was on the night police beat in Washington writing anonymous squibs about the catastrophes of others. - from the preface

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cover page
title page
dedication
preface

I.
The Wilderness Campaign: Al Gore
Mrs. Graham
The Masochism Campaign: Tony Blair
High Water

II.
Into the Clear: Philip Roth
No Longer, Not Yet: Don DeLillo
Exit the Castle: Václav Havel
The Exile: Solzhenitsyn in Vermont

III.
Deep in the Woods: Solzhenitsyn in Moscow
The Last Tsar
The Translation Wars
Post-Imperial Blues: Vladimir Putin

IV.
The Afterlife: Natan Sharansky
The Outsider: Benjamin Netanyahu
Rage and Reason: Sari Nusseibeh and teh PLO
The Spirit Level: Amos Oz
After Arafat
The Democracy Game: Hamas Comes to Power in Palestine

V.
Kid Dynamite Blows Up: Mike Tyson
Cornerman: Teddy Atlas
Comeback: Larry Holmes
The Moralist: Lennox Lewis
Tyson's Corner

Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by David Remnick
Acclaim for David Remnick's
Copyright

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  • prostrantsvo: transliterated Russian (пространство) noun meaning "space", in the sense of "wide open spaces". Something Solzhenitsyn decided he couldn't find in Europe in order to live and work as he wanted, and so elected exile in the United States.

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  1. David Remnick (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 0307263584
Page Count: 496

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