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From a writer of astonishing versatility, this wonderfully rich collection of pieces is both a memoirof Philip Hamburger's writing life and a vivid and various record of the world he has lived in. Hamburger first went to work for The New Yorker in 1939, under the aegis of Harold Ross, and he isstill there--six decades and four editors later. He has wandered all over its pages as Our Man Stanley or Reporter at Large, doing Talk of the Town, Casuals, and Notes & Comment, writing Profiles, and more. And he has wandered all over the map, unearthing the secret souls of some fifty-five American townsand cities (from Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Butte, Montana) and bearing witness to the horrors of warand fascism (from Mussolini's bloody corpse hanging upside down in a Milan public square, to thehungry, hollow-eyed marchers bearing pro-Tito posters through the wrecked streets of Belgradeafter the war). An old-fashioned liberal--and proud of it-- Hamburger has witnessed almost every inauguration since1933 (at Roosevelt's first he was perched on the icy branch of a tree), has spied shamelessly on a succession of New York City mayors (he used to live conveniently across from Gracie Mansion), an

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Author

Philip Hamburger

Publisher

Knopf : Distributed by Random House

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679438830

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

3.6 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14