Resonant Lives: Fifty Figures of Consequence

By Paul Greenberg

Book Overview

Paul Greenberg's word portraits of significant political, historical, and literary figures are gathered together here for the first time. This nationally syndicated columnist and winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing has a flair for capturing in a brief span the essence of a personality and the mark that person has made on the world. Includes essays on Beckett, Faubus, Fulbright, Gromyko, Kennan, Lincoln, Mencken, Moyniham, Orwell, and Swaggart, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Isasc Bashevis Singer, Jesse Jackson, Richard Nixon, Ayn Rand and Robert E. Lee.
Greenberg's column appears in the Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Louisville Courier, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and some fifty other papers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896331539
• ISBN13: 9780896331532
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Paul Greenberg at his best

For those who have not read Paul Greenberg (or have never heard of him), this book is a good place to start. It is a collection of his newspaper editorials about famous, infamous, and little-known people from across the spectrum - politicians, authors, actors, sports figures, and more. Paul brings both sympathetic insights and subtle incisions into each biographical sketch. The chapter on Ayn Rand alone is worth the price of the book, and it is only a typical example of Paul's ability to combine character assessments with observations having moral value.