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Looking Back

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From his youthful days as a delivery boy for William Randolph Hearst’s Baltimore newspapers through his many years as a journalist and commentator, Russell Baker has been a keen observer of American politics and culture. Now, in these eleven essays, all originally published in The New York Review of Books, he looks back on a group of iconic public figures from his own past.

Profiled here are presidents , would-be presidents , and those who set their sights on something besides the presidency .

Undeluded by the roar of what he calls “our national engines of ballyhoo, bushwah, and baloney,” Russell Baker reflects on the strange fascination that these larger-than-life characters have held for the American imagination. With an elegiac yet shrewd sense of their accomplishments both enduring and ephemeral, he traces the impressions they left on twentieth-century America—and on him.

Language: English

Pages: 212

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New York Review Books

Release: February 29, 2004

ISBN: 1590170881

ISBN 13: 9781590170885

Looking Back

0/5 ( ratings)

From his youthful days as a delivery boy for William Randolph Hearst’s Baltimore newspapers through his many years as a journalist and commentator, Russell Baker has been a keen observer of American politics and culture. Now, in these eleven essays, all originally published in The New York Review of Books, he looks back on a group of iconic public figures from his own past.

Profiled here are presidents , would-be presidents , and those who set their sights on something besides the presidency .

Undeluded by the roar of what he calls “our national engines of ballyhoo, bushwah, and baloney,” Russell Baker reflects on the strange fascination that these larger-than-life characters have held for the American imagination. With an elegiac yet shrewd sense of their accomplishments both enduring and ephemeral, he traces the impressions they left on twentieth-century America—and on him.

Language: English

Pages: 212

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New York Review Books

Release: February 29, 2004

ISBN: 1590170881

ISBN 13: 9781590170885

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