Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage (Hardcover)

Introduction
Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan's The Tribes of America
Nicholson Baker on Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year
Dale Maharidge on James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Robert Lipsyte on Paul Gallico's Farewell to Sport
Marla Cone on Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Ben Yagoda on Walter Bernstein's Keep Your Head Down
Evan Cornog on A. J. Liebling's The Earl of Louisiana
Ted Conover on Stanley Booth's The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
Jack Shafer on Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Naresh Fernandes on Palagummi Sainath's Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts
Chris Lehmann on Charles Raw, Bruce Page, and Godfrey Hodgson's Do You Sincerely Want to Be Rich?
Connie Schultz on Michael Herr's Dispatches
Michael Shapiro on Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day
Douglas McCollam on John McPhee's Annals of the Former World
Scott Sherman on Marshall Frady's Wallace
Gal Beckerman on Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart
John Maxwell Hamilton on Vincent Sheean's Personal History
Tom Piazza on Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night
Thomas Mallon on William Manchester's The Death of a President
Miles Corwin on Gabriel García Márquez's The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
David Ulin on Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Justin Peters on Peter Fleming's Brazilian Adventure
Claire Dederer on Betty MacDonald's Anybody Can Do Anything
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