American Sucker

Denby, David

Humor & Entertainment

Back Bay Books

Denby's writing has made him one of the country's most sought-after critics, and Great Books was a New York Times bestseller. Here Denby tells the story not only of his own decline, but of his new friends Sam Waksal, indicted founder of ImClone, and Henry Blodgett, disgraced analyst for Merrill Lynch.

The author of Great Books presents a candid memoir of money, desire, greed, and love as he describes his divorce, its effects on his life, and his irrational plunge into the stock market madness of the high-tech boom, discussing his own motives and illusions in terms of the simultaneous blindness and greed that consumed the nation. 60,000 first printing.

Little. Brown and Company

Bobbs-Merrill 1973 First Printing. A bit of edge wear, rubbing on spine, uncreased, unbroken. Name stamp front free end paper. We also have Film 73-74: see gstevens1. Private collection.

Film 72-73 an Anthology by the National Society of Film Critics

Bobbs-Merrill Co.

Film, 73-74

Cocks, Jay

Bobbs-Merrill

Great Books. My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World

History

World

Simon&Schuster

Gathers a diverse group of students and teachers at Columbia University to guide readers through the works of Homer, Dante, Woolf, Plato, Marx, and more, exploring the current debate about what constitutes a classic and the revolutionary power these works still contain. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

Great Books

Business & Money

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER At the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the literary and philosophical masterpieces -- the "great books" -- that are now at the heart of the culture wars. In Great Books, he leads us on a glorious tour, a rediscovery and celebration of such authors as Homer and Boccaccio, Locke and Nietzsche. Conrad and Woolf. The resulting personal odyssey is an engaging blend of self-discovery, cultural commentary, reporting, criticism, and autobiography -- an inspiration for anyone in love with the written word.

GREAT BOOKS

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

A bestselling author and distinguished critic goes back to high school to find out whether books can shape lives
It's no secret that millions of American teenagers, caught up in social media, television, movies, and games, don't read seriously-they associate sustained reading with duty or work, not with pleasure. This indifference has become a grievous loss to our standing as a great nation--and a personal loss, too, for millions of teenagers who may turn into adults with limited understanding of themselves and the world. 
Can teenagers be turned on to serious reading? What kind of teachers can do it, and what books? To find out, Denby sat in on a tenth-grade English class in a demanding New York public school for an entire academic year, and made frequent visits to a troubled inner-city public school in New Haven and to a respected public school in Westchester county. He read all the stories, poems, plays, and novels that the kids were reading, and creates an impassioned portrait of charismatic teachers at work, classroom dramas large and small, and fresh and inspiring encounters with the books themselves, including The Scarlet Letter, Brave New World, 1984, Slaughterhouse-Five, Notes From Underground, Long Way Gone and many more. Lit Up is a dramatic narrative that traces awkward and baffled beginnings but also exciting breakthroughs and the emergence of pleasure in reading. In a sea of bad news about education and the fate of the book, Denby reaffirms the power of great teachers and the importance and inspiration of great books.

Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives.

Henry Holt and Co.

“[A] masterpiece . . . Denby is especially astute in describing what it takes to capture teenagers’ attention. . . . [A] wonderful book.” ---The Huffington Post
It’s no secret that millions of American teenagers, caught up in social media, television, movies, and games, don’t read seriously---they associate sustained reading with duty or work, not with pleasure. Seeing this indifference as a grievous loss, bestselling author and distinguished critic David Denby goes back to high school to answer two questions: Can teenagers be turned on to serious reading? What kind of teachers can do it, and with what books? Denby sat in on a tenth-grade English class in a demanding New York public school for an entire academic year and made frequent visits to a troubled inner-city public school in New Haven and to a respected public school in Westchester County. He read all the stories, poems, plays, and novels that the kids were reading, and here creates an impassioned portrait of charismatic teachers at work, classroom dramas large and small, and fresh and inspiring encounters with the books themselves. Lit Up is a dramatic narrative that traces awkward and baffled beginnings but also exciting breakthroughs and the emergence of pleasure in reading. In a sea of bad news about education and the fate of the book, Denby reaffirms the power of great teachers and the importance and inspiration of great books.

Lit Up

Picador Paper

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American Sucker

American Sucker

American Sucker

Film 72-73 an Anthology by the National Society of Film Critics

Film, 73-74

Great Books. My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World

Great Books

GREAT BOOKS

Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives.

Lit Up