Plimpton, George.
Summary: With his characteristic wit, George Plimpton recounts how he talked his way into the Detroit Lions training camp, practiced with the team, and even took snaps behind the center in a preseason game. He captures the pressures and tensions rookies confront, the hijinks that pervade when sixty high-strung guys live together in close quarters, and a host of football rites and rituals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PLIMPTON, GEORGE PLISummary: In this sensational tale of one of the greatest storytellers in history, George Plimpton's astounding journalism career is captured in heartwarming footage and intimate personal interviews.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PLISummary: Ken Burns's Emmy Award-winning documentary brings to life America's most destructive and defining conflict. The Civil War is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CIVSummary: Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent - a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Horatio went the opposite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HORFormat: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: A home-run chronology / George Plimpton -- That man from Mudville / Grantland Rice -- From The natural / Bernard Malamud -- Josh / Robert Peterson -- His majesty the king / Paul Gallico -- Kaleidoscope : personality of the Babe / Robert W. Creamer -- The Babe / Garrison Keillor -- Dream of a baseball star / Gregory Corso -- Hub fans bid kid adieu / John Updike -- Miracle of Coogan's bluff / Red...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, INC. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 HOMSummary: While researching his book "In cold blood", writer Truman Capote develops a relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and, in particular Perry Smith, while both men waited for their date of execution on death row.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INFContents: Marianne Moore -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Rebecca West -- Dorothy Parker -- P.L. Travers -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Euroda Welty -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Mary McCarthy -- Nadine Gordimer -- Maya Angelou -- Anne Sexton -- Toni Morrison -- Susan Sontag -- Joan Didion -- Joyce Carol Oates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1998