Jim Wright, Author, Jim Wright, Author, Wright, Author . Duke Univ. $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8223-2926-8
Auto racing amounts to yahoos watching other yahoos chase their tailgates, right? Sociologist Wright doesn't agree completely. A racer's son himself, he juxtaposes the magniloquent ("existential inauthenticity") with the colloquial (&
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Jim Wright, Author Lyons Press $22.95 (214p) ISBN 978-1-59228-656-0
The lengthening shelf of Greatest Generation memoirs gets a pleasant if somewhat rambling and soft-focus addition in this reminiscence by the former Democratic Speaker of the House. Wright traverses the usual rites of passage, including post-Pearl...
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Jim Wright, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $16.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-88184-569-3
In this hardboiled, inner-city mystery/thriller, Will Carver, a 40-ish cynical freelance photographer for the New York Daily News , buys a hot camera from a pawn shop. The roll of film inside, when processed, reveals shots of a male investment...
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Jim Wright, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $18.95 (237p) ISBN 978-0-88184-744-4
Newspaperman Stuart Reed is as immature, arrogant and sexist a hero as Sammy Glick, but Wright ( The Last Frame ) doesn't inspire readers to care about what makes Stuart run. As a reporter on a small New Jersey daily, Stuart breaks all the rules in...
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Jim Wright, Author Turner Publications Inc $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57036-278-1
An intimate of nine presidents from Eisenhower to Clinton, former Congressman Wright (D.-Texas) resigned from his post as Speaker of the House in 1989, a move he blames on character assassination by Newt Gingrich and other conservative Republicans...
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