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Looking Back

by Russell Baker
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Overview

Undeluded by the roar of what he calls "our national engines of ballyhoo, bushwah, and baloney," Russell Baker reflects on the impact that a gallery of larger-than-life characters - from William Randolph Hearst and Barry Goldwater to Joe DiMaggio and Martin Luther King - have had on America and the American imagination.

Synopsis

Undeluded by the roar of what he calls our national engines of ballyhoo, bushwah, and baloney, Russell Baker reflects on the impact that a gallery of larger-than-life characters - from William Randolph Hearst and Barry Goldwater to Joe DiMaggio and Martin Luther King - have had on America and the American imagination.

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Book Details

Published
April 28, 2002
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pages
200
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780641741579

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