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  • Garbo

    by Robert Gottlieb ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice | One of Esquire's 125 best books about HollywoodAward-winning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen legend Greta Garbo, and the culture that worshiped her.“Wherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941,” Robert Gottlieb writes in Garbo, “Greta Garbo is in people’s minds, hearts, and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Near-Death Experiences . . . and Others

    by Robert Gottlieb ...
    A new collection of immersive essays from the most acclaimed editor of the second half of the twentieth centuryThis new collection from the legendary editor Robert Gottlieb features twenty or so pieces he’s written mostly for The New York Review of Books, ranging from reconsiderations of American writers such as Dorothy Parker, Thornton Wilder, Thomas Wolfe (“genius”), and James Jones, to Leonard ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Mastering Gold and Silver Markets

    Insights from a Legendary Bullion Bank Trader

    by Robert Gottlieb ...
    Explore the high-stakes world of gold and silver tradingIn Mastering Gold and Silver Markets: Insights from a Legendary Bullion Bank Trader, veteran precious metals trader, Robert Gottlieb, delivers an insightful blend of memoir and education that covers the world of bullion trading from a banker’s perspective. The book covers his journey from working at a certified public accounting firm to his ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • IQ Room Temperature

    by Robert Gottlieb ...
    Attorney Sam Weisman is having a bad day. His wife wants a divorce and his law practice is threatened by a hostile takeover.Pulled one way by two hilarious con artists who plan to steal his dream, and another by his family and the real estate professional who has worked her way into his heart, Sam uncovers the wisdom he has so often criticized in his father's madness as he struggles to hold onto ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Avid Reader

    A Life

    by Robert Gottlieb ...
    Winner of the Anne M. Sperber PrizeA spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time.After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf a dozen years later, he was the editor in chief, having discovered and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Reading Jazz

    A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now

    Edited by Robert Gottlieb ...
    "Comprehensive and intelligently organized. . . . Jazz aficionados . . . should be grateful to have so much good writing on the subject in one place."--The New York Times Book Review"Alluring. . . . Capture[s] much of the breadth of the music, as well as the passionate debates it has stirred, more vividly than any other jazz anthology to date."--Chicago TribuneNo musical idiom has inspired more ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Journals of John Cheever

    by John Cheever ...
    Series series Vintage International
    In these journals, the experiences of one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers come to life with fascinating, wholly revealing detail. • "A treasure-trove of riches." —The New York Times Book ReviewThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author's journals provide peerless insights into the creation of his novels and stories. But they are equally the record of a complex, often dark, always ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • George Balanchine

    The Ballet Maker

    by Robert Gottlieb ...
    Series series Eminent Lives
    "Gottlieb captures both the divine and human, offering an elegant, sharp, and sophisticated take on the choreographer's life." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)Written by the gifted author, editor, and dance critic Robert Gottlieb, George Balanchine describes the life and art of the celebrated, revolutionary ballet choreographer and founder of The New York City Ballet.The foremost contemporary ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Food Justice

    by Robert Gottlieb, Anupama Joshi ...
    Series series Food, Health, and the Environment
    The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table.In today's food system, farm workers face difficult and hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast-food restaurants and liquor stores, food products emphasize convenience rather than wholesomeness, and the international reach of American ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Care-Centered Politics

    From the Home to the Planet

    by Robert Gottlieb ...
    Why a care economy and care-centered politics can influence and reorient such issues as health, the environment, climate, race, inequality, gender, and immigration.This agenda-setting book presents a framework for creating a more just and equitablecare-centered world. Climate change, pandemic events, systemic racism, and deep inequalities have all underscored the centrality of care in our lives. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Reinventing Los Angeles

    Nature and Community in the Global City

    by Robert Gottlieb ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how innovative social movements are working to make a more livable and sustainable city.Los Angeles—the place without a sense of place, famous for sprawl and overdevelopment and defined by its car-clogged freeways—might seem inhospitable to ideas about connecting with nature and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt

    by Robert Gottlieb ...

    $17.99 USD