The devil problem and other true stories
By: David Remnick
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780679452553
Subjects: American essays; Celebrities; Biography
Description: The Devil Problem and Other True Stories is David Remnick's first book since his Pulitzer Prize-winning Lenin's Tomb. While Remnick has continued to visit and report on Russia, he has also written on a wide variety of subjects for the New Yorker, from politics to opera. This work collects the best of these pieces.
Table of contents: title: Winter on the mountain (Gary Hart); title: The situationist (Marion Berry); title: Negative capability (Mario Cuomo); title: Belfast confetti (Gerry Adams); title: Unforgiven (Alger Hiss); title: The September song of Mr. October (Reggie Jackson); title: Hamlet in Hollywood; title: The devil problem (Elaine Pagels); title: Perfect pitch (Joseph Brodsky); title: Visible man (Ralph Ellison); title: Dr. Wilson's neighborhood (William Julius Wilson); title: A father and his son (Kenzaburo and Hikari Oe); title: "I'm back" (Michael Jordan); title: Raging bull (Dennis Rodman); title: Last of the red hots (Ben Bradlee); title: Good news is no news (USA today); title: News in a dying language (the Forward); title: The last gentleman (Murray Kempton)