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While on a year of study in Paris in 1927, Liebling acquired the friendship and tutelage of Yves Mirande, 'one of the last great gastronomes of France', beginning a joyous apprenticeship in the fine art of eating. Told with gluttonous joie de vivre, Between Meals expounds on the delights and pitfalls of a life dedicated to food, from bad rosé ('a pinkish cross between No-Cal and vinegar') to lobster a l'Américaine ('I have never personally inq...

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Über Paris und die französische Küche in ihrer besten Zeit hat niemand so geschrieben wie der wunderbare A. J. Liebling, für den ein Tag ohne opulentes Mittag- und Abendessen nicht der Rede wert war. Zeit seines Lebens ein engagierter politischer Publizist und Gourmand, hatte er das Glück, sich von unten nach oben durch die französische Hauptstadt fressen zu müssen: Als junger Mann entdeckte er in den zwanziger Jahren, dass sich teures Essen u...

Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Jersey Joe Walcott - einige der schweren und leichteren Jungs der amerikanischen Nachkriegszeit, deren Namen heute noch einen großen Klang haben. Ihnen und vielen anderen Namenlosen wird in diesem Buch ein Denkmal gesetzt, das die begeisternden Seiten der Amerikaner und ihrer demokratischen Gesellschaft zeigt. A. J. Liebling, einer derjenigen, die den New Yorker zu einem berühmten Magazin machten,...

A. J. Liebling, born in Manhattan in 1904, joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1935 and contributed innumerable articles to the magazine throughout his lifetime, on subjects ranging from food to boxing and France to horse racing. As a war correspondent during the Second World War, he reported from France, England and Algeria, and participated in the Normandy landings. In later life he married the writer Jean Stafford, his third wife. He died...

Presents a view of the Second World War, through stories told in the words of the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who fought it, the civilians who endured it, and the correspondents who covered it.

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The great events of boxings American heydaySugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate declineare brought vividly to life in the book that Sports Illustrated called the best American sports book of all time.

This collection of A. J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the sweet science of bruising brings vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday, including Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, and Joe Louis's unfortunate decline. Liebling never fails to find the human story behind the fight, and he evokes the atmosphere in the arena as distinc...

A.J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate decline

A.J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate decline

A.J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate decline. Liebling never fails to find the human story behind the fight, and he evokes the atmosphere in the arena as distinctly as he does the goings-on in t...

New Yorker" writer A.J. Liebling recalls his Parisian apprenticeship in the fine art of eating in this charming memoir.

In the summer of 1959, A. J. Liebling, a veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events that began with Governor Earl K. Long's commitment to a mental institution. Captivated by his subject, Liebling remained to write the fascinating yet tragic story of Uncle Earl's final year in politics. First published in 1961, THE EARL OF LOUISIANA recreates a stormy era in Louisiana politics and captures the style...

Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Liebling's tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found much to admire in the Windy City's people and culture--its colorful language, its political sophistication, its sense of its own history and specialness, but Liebling offended that city's image of itself when he discussed its entertainments, its built landscapes, and its mental isolation from the world's affairs. Liebling, a wr...

Fifteen previously unpublished boxing pieces written between 1952 and 1963. Demonstrating A.J. Liebling’, s abiding passion for the “, sweet science”, of boxing, "A Neutral Corner" brings together fifteen previously unpublished pieces written between 1952 and 1963. Antic, clear-eyed, and wildly entertaining, these essays showcase a" The New Yorker" journalist at the top of his form. Here one relives the high drama of the classi...

A classic work on Broadway sharpers, grifters, and con men by the late, great New Yorker journalist A. J. Liebling.Often referred to as "Liebling lowlife pieces, ” the essays in The Telephone Booth Indian boisterously celebrate raffishness. A. J. Liebling appreciated a good scam and knew how to cultivate the scammers. Telephone Booth Indians (entrepreneurs so impecunious that they conduct business from telephone booths in the lobbies of New Yo...

Day by day story of the French Resistance Movement during WWII, written by its active participants, selected and edited by the famous American war correspondent who was intimately familiar with France.