Robert Gottlieb è l'autore di tre celebrate biografie che si concentrano su saggi biografici, esplorando le sfide della creatività artistica e svelando vasti mondi intellettuali e artistici. Il suo stile è profondamente informato ma accessibile, con un talento nel ritrarre individui affascinanti che hanno plasmato i loro campi artistici. Gottlieb approfondisce le vite dei suoi soggetti per rivelare cosa li ha spinti, scoprendo i loro talenti e successi unici. Il suo lavoro testimonia il suo profondo amore per le arti e la sua capacità di trasmettere quella passione ai lettori.
Facing personal and professional turmoil, attorney Sam Weisman grapples with his wife's desire for a divorce while simultaneously confronting a hostile takeover of his law practice. This dual crisis forces him to navigate the challenges of his crumbling marriage and the precarious state of his career, leading to a compelling exploration of resilience and the fight to reclaim his life amidst chaos.
"Care-Centered Politics provides a framework for the vision and the linkages needed to help create a more care-centered society and planet"-- Provided by publisher
A new collection of immersive essays from the most acclaimed editor of the second half of the twentieth century.
How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space.
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 edited Catch-22 and The American Way of Death, among other bestsellers. At Knopf, Gottlieb edited a long list of authors, including Toni Morrison, John Cheever, Doris Lessing, John le Carré, Michael Crichton, Lauren Bacall, Katharine Graham, Robert Caro, Nora Ephron, and Bill Clinton -- not to mention Bruno Bettelheim and Miss Piggy. In Avid Reader, Gottlieb writes about succeeding William Shawn as the editor of The New Yorker, and the challenges and satisfactions of running America's preeminent magazine. Sixty years after joining Simon and Schuster, Gottlieb is still at it -- editing, anthologizing, and, to his surprise, writing.
New York Mid Century is the story of how the Big Apple emerged as the cultural capital of the postwar world in all fields of creative endeavour art, architecture, design, music, theatre and dance. It was a period of intense cross-fertilization, as poets and critics mixed with artists, dealers, musicians, designers, architects, dancers, and choreographers. Richly illustrated with hundreds of paintings, drawings, photographs, elevations, plans, posters, programmes and ephemera, this is a stirring evocation of a remarkably fertile period in the citys history, the styles and aesthetics of which are now very much back in vogue.
On Christmas Eve, 1943, the newly formed but undermanned Homicide division of the Melbourne police force is called to investigate the vicious double murder of a father and son. When Military Intelligence becomes involved, Homicide's Inspector Titus Lambert must unravel the personal from the political.
"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 fast-food franchises has been a major contributor to an epidemic of 'globesity.' To combat these inequities and excesses, a movement for food justice has emerged in recent years seeking to transform the food system from seed to table. In Food Justice, Robert Gottlieb and Anupana Joshi tell the story of this emerging movement. A food justice framework ensures that the benefits and risks of how food is grown and processed, transported, distributed, and consumes are shared equitably. Gottlieb and Joshi recount the history of food injustices and describe current efforts to change the system. The first comprehensive inquiry into this emerging movement, Food Justice addresses the increasing disconnect between food and culture that has resulted from our highly industrialized food system"--Unedited summary from book cover.
Niemand verstand sich auf das Showbusiness wie Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923). Sie schmückte ihren Hut mit einer ausgestopften Fledermaus, führte stets ihren eigenen Sarg mit sich und wurde auf ihrer Amerika-Tournee 1880 von einem Alligator begleitet. Ihr Schauspiel war legendär, ihr Liebesleben atemberaubend, und beide Talente wurden von ihrer Fähigkeit, daraus Geld zu schlagen, übertroffen. Robert Gottlieb zeichnet ein schillerndes Bild dieser ersten europäischen Diva und gräbt tief in der Vergangenheit, um Ungereimtheiten in Bernhardts Lebenslügen und Legenden aufzuspüren, die frühere Biografen wiederholten. Dumas bemerkte einmal, dass sie so genial lügt, dass sie vielleicht sogar dick ist, obwohl sie stets als dünn beschrieben wurde. Hier tritt die vielschichtige Persönlichkeit einer Ausnahmeschauspielerin hervor, einer Frau mit zarter Gesundheit, aber starkem Willen: Weder ihre traurige familiäre Herkunft als ungeliebter Bastard einer Kurtisane noch der Dünkel in der Comédie Française konnten sie von ihrem Ziel abbringen, die beste und bestbezahlte Schauspielerin ihrer Zeit zu werden. Robert Gottlieb, geboren 1931 in New York, ist Cheflektor bei Simon & Schuster und Alfred A. Knopf und war von 1987 bis 1992 Chefredakteur des New Yorkers. Er schreibt regelmäßig Buchkritiken für The New York Review of Books und The New York Observer.