Fishing in the Tiber
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- Synopsis
- History is like the Tiber, Henry James once wrote, "swift and dirty." In a collection of essays written over the past decade for Time magazine, Lance Morrow goes on his own fishing expedition in the muddy stream of history, and his catch is as rich as it is varied. These are the lively meditations on people, events, movements, and oddities of the American scene that have brought Morrow numerous honors, including the National Magazine Award, and established him as one of the preeminent prose stylists of our day. A historian of the future seeking to learn how life was lived in the 1970s and '80s could do no better than to start with these calls "the hard questions" of our lives: racism, abortion, the meaning of an oath. He reevaluates the reputation of figures such as John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Charles Lindbergh - and talks about U.S. Grant and the forbidden subject of failure in American life. What sort of people are we really, and where do we repeatedly go wrong? But Fishing in the Tiber can also be amusing and offbeat, as when Morrow examines such phenomena as the confessional memoir, the telephone answering machine, the movie Casablanca, or the bodybulding fad. In Lance Morrow's hands, the formal essay is alive and well.
- Copyright:
- 1988
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 273 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780805006353
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 05/22/02
- Copyrighted By:
- Lance Morrow
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction
- Submitted By:
- Andy Xiang
- Proofread By:
- Andy Xiang
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.