The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms

Rosenbaum, Ron

ISBN 10: 0060934468 / ISBN 13: 9780060934460

Editore: Harper Perennial, 2001

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Riassunto:

A collection of essays by the author of Explaining Hitler explores the complexities and oddities of American life, from Bill Gates's weird house and Elvis to Mr. Whipple and Tijuana's underground cancer clinics, in works including "The Curse of the Dead Sea Scrolls" and "The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal." Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Ron Rosenbaum grew up on Long Island, New York. A graduate of Yale with a degree in English literature, he left Yale Graduate School to write full-time. His essays and journalism have appeared in Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker; he's done eight cover stories for the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of four previous books, including one novel and three collections of his essays and journalism, most recently Travels with Dr Death and Other Unusual Investigations.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and historian Thomas Powers called him "one of the few distinctive voices of modern American literary journalism." His work has been characterized by the essayist Phillip Lopate as combining "the skills of a terrific investigative reporter and an accomplished literary stylist with an idiosyncratic streak all his own."

More than ten years ago, he began investigating certain unresolved controversies among Hitler biographers, and ultimately embarked on an odyssey that took him from Vienna and Munich to London, Paris, and Jerusalem. The book that emerged combines original research and dramatic face-to-face encounters with historians, philosophers, psychologists, and theologians as they attempt to account for the elusive figure of Adolf Hitler and the meanings projected upon him by his explainers.

Currently Ron Rosenbaum writes for the New York Times Magazine, and The New York Observer, and teaches a course on literary journalism at the Columbia Graduate School of journalism.

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Titolo: The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades ...
Casa editrice: Harper Perennial
Data di pubblicazione: 2001
Legatura: Brossura
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