Product Description: 'There is an old proverb,' A. J. Liebling wrote, 'that a girl may sleep with one man without being a trollop, but let a man cover one little war and he is a war correspondent.' The only reason Liebling is not well known as a war correspondent is that his war dispatches have been overshadowed by his postwar New Yorker writings...read more

Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, Mickey Donovan finally achieves his childhood dream of playing baseball for the White Sox when he makes the team in 1919, a dream that is transformed into a nightmare by the infamous Black Sox scandal.

Product Description: Liebling at the New Yorker Uncollected Essays. hardcover

Product Description: This collection of essays describes the genesis of ten classic works of American literature. Using biographical, cultural, and manuscript evidence, the contributors tell the "stories of stories," plotting the often curious and always interesting ways in which notable American books took shape in a writer's mind...read more

Product Description: This is the first book to combine chemistry with techniques of preserving archaeological wood. Among the topics discussed in its 17 chapters are the chemical composition of wood and changes brought about by the decay process, biopredators, radiation curing, freeze-drying, chemical preservation techniques, museum environments, the ethics of conservation, and value systems for choosing among the qualities of wood that can be preserved...read more