Remnick, David

Lenin's tomb : the last days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick ( Book )
18 editions published between 1991 and 2007 in English and held by 2,930 libraries worldwide
A moment in history, the collapse of the Soviet empire, is examined along with the restoration of truth in the region, the truth about the brutal Soviet past and the bleak Soviet present.

King of the world : Muhammad Ali and the rise of an American hero by David Remnick ( Book )
14 editions published between 1998 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 2,482 libraries worldwide
"There were mythic sports figures before him - Jack Johnson, Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Joe DiMaggio - but when Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene from his native Louisville in the 1950s, he broke the mold. He changed the world of sports and went on to change the world itself. As Muhammad Ali, he would become the most recognized face on the planet. This unforgettable story of his rise and self-creation, told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, places Ali in a heritage of great American originals." "Cassius Clay grew up in the Jim Crow South and came of athletic age when boxers were at the mercy of the mob. From the start, Clay rebelled against everything and everyone who would keep him and his people down. He refused the old stereotypes and refused the glad hand of the mob. And, to the confusion and fury of white sportswriters, who were far more comfortable with the self-effacing Joe Louis, Clay came forward as a rebel, insistent on his political views, on his new religion, and, eventually, on a new name. His rebellion nearly cost him the chance to fight for the heavyweight championship of the world." "King of the World features some of the pivotal figures of the 1960s - Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, John F. Kennedy - and its pivotal events: the civil rights movement, political assassinations, the war in Vietnam."--BOOK JACKET.

The bridge : the life and rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick ( Book )
19 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and held by 2,383 libraries worldwide
Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick demonstrates how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, then as a Harvard Law School graduate, and finally as President of the United States. "By looking at Obama's political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us the conflicting agendas of black politicians: the dilemmas of ... heroes of the civil rights movement who are forced to reassess old loyalties and understand the priorties of a new generation of African-American leaders. The Bridge revisits the American drama of race, from slavery to civil rights, and makes clear how Obama's quest is not just his own but is emblematic of a nation where destiny is defined by individuals keen to imagine a future that is different from the reality of their current lives."--From publisher description.

Resurrection : the struggle for a new Russia by David Remnick ( Book )
14 editions published between 1997 and 1998 in English and held by 1,930 libraries worldwide
Resurrection plunges the reader directly into the thick of events so that one all but feels Yeltsin's breath upon one's face - he is drunk one day, in command the next, as volatile as the fragmented country he tries to lead. Remnick's new Russia springs to life through vivid portraits of its players: the half-Jewish anti-Semite Zhirinovsky, "a hater, a crank, a nut"; the young (and purged) economist Yegor Gaidar, champion of "shock therapy" and market reform; Vladimir Gusinsky, Russia's Citizen Kane ("a first-generation capitalist living in a jungle world with few rules or restraints"); Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who returned from a twenty-year exile to find a country freed from communism but still steeped in misery - and nostalgia. These portraits emerge against a background dominated by the war in Chechnya, which Remnick visits in a bloody and unforgettable chapter, and a Moscow in turbulent transition.

Fierce pajamas : an anthology of humor writing from the New Yorker ( Book )
6 editions published between 2001 and 2002 in English and held by 916 libraries worldwide
When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he described it as a "comic weekly." And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists of the modern era, from Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker to Woody Allen and Steve Martin. This anthology gathers together the funniest work of more than seventy contributors. Parodists take on not only writers like Hemingway and Kerouac, but TV documentaries, Italian cinema, and etiquette books. Other pieces offer perspectives on the heights of fame, the depths of social embarrassment, and the ups and downs of love and sex. A rich selection of humorous verse includes caustic gems by Dorothy Parker, the effortless whimsy of Phyllis McGinley, and Ogden Nash's unforgettable slapstick prosody, as well as forays by luminaries who ought to have known better.--From publisher description.

Life stories : profiles from The New Yorker ( Book )
12 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 872 libraries worldwide
An anthology of biographical profiles from "The New Yorker" covers some of the most influential and infamous people of the century, from Ernest Hemingway and Legs Diamond to Adolf Hitler and Edith Wharton.

Reporting : writings from the New Yorker by David Remnick ( Book )
9 editions published between 2006 and 2010 in English and held by 754 libraries worldwide
"From one of the most gifted and widely read journalists at work today, a volume that collects the best of his pieces from The New Yorker [newspaper] over the last fifteen years".-- Cover.

Wonderful town : New York stories from The New Yorker ( Book )
18 editions published between 2000 and 2002 in English and held by 748 libraries worldwide
An anthology of forty-four timeless short stories set in the diversity of New York City, selected from seventy-five years of the New Yorker. Includes such writer as John Cheever, Woody Allen, John O'Hara, James Thurber, Vladimir Nabokov, Susan Sontag, and Dorothy Parker.

Secret ingredients : the New Yorker book of food and drink ( Book )
5 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 612 libraries worldwide
An compilation of essays, fiction, and cartoons on the world of food and drink from the pages of The New Yorker features contributions by Susan Orlean, Calvin Trillin, Joan Didion, Anthony Bourdain, John Cheever, and Roald Dahl.

The new gilded age : the New Yorker looks at the culture of affluence ( Book )
11 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 598 libraries worldwide
Thirty-three essays from "The New Yorker" explore the effects of the recent years of unprecedented prosperity and economic change on American society.