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Way back in 1926 the founding editor of The New Yorker suggested that the title Profiles be registered with the copyright bureau. Harold Ross had ample reason, for though he didn't invent the word itself, he certainly invested it with new significance. Over the years, New Yorker Profiles came to represent a new kind of biography: concise, well-researched, and impeccably written sketches of personalities who were often famous--but just as often not. Take for example "Mr. Hunter's Grave," Joseph Mitchell's 1956 Profile of George H. Hunter, the 87-year-old chairman of the board of trustees of the African Methodist church on Staten Island. This delightful piece leads off a select group of Profiles culled from The New Yorker's first 75 years and collected in Life Stories, edited by David Remnick. More a study of a place and a way of life than of a particular man, Mitchell's Profile stretched the parameters of the form.
The very next piece, Mark Singer's "Secrets of the Magus," is a prime example of what The New Yorker does best. In Ricky Jay, "perhaps the most gifted sleight-of-hand artist alive," Singer has hit on a quirky, eccentric, and fascinating subject--one that offers plenty of scope for writer and reader alike to dip into an arcane and little-known world of magicians, mountebanks, card handlers, and confidence men. Alva Johnston achieves similar success in "The Education of a Prince," his 1932 Profile of con man Harry F. Gerguson, who spent years masquerading as the lost Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff:
The Prince had a glittering career in New York, Boston, Newport, on Long Island, in high-caste settlements along the Hudson, and among the aristocracies of a dozen American cities. Twice he swept over Hollywood in a confetti shower of bad checks. He was repeatedly exposed, but exposure does not embarrass him greatly. He is widely admired today, not for his title but for his own sake. He has convinced a fairly large public that a good imposter is preferable to the average prince.
Of course The New Yorker covered plenty of household names, as well, and Life Stories contains sketches of such celebrities as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Johnny Carson, Richard Pryor and Marlon Brando. The arts are well represented by pieces on Ernest Hemingway, Anatole Broyard, and David Salle, and even the contributors are stellar, including such well-known scribes as Henry Louis Gates Jr., Truman Capote, and John McPhee.
But where is that famous Profile of the sea by Rachel Carson, you ask? Pauline Kael's piece on Cary Grant or Janet Malcolm's controversial study of psychoanalyst Aaron Green? In his introduction Remnick acknowledges the many great Profiles that did not make it into this volume, explaining that he decided to publish pieces only in full. "I wanted the reader to get the real thing--no excerpts, no snippets," he writes. "As a result the reader will have to go elsewhere for a range of long or multipart Profiles." What's here is choice, though, and die-hard New Yorker aficionados who turn to the Profiles even before perusing the cartoons won't be disappointed by what they find. All in all, Life Stories makes a fine 75th anniversary bouquet for the magazine's many devoted readers. --Alix Wilber
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One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker magazine has met this challenge more often and more successfully--and more originally and more surprisingly--than any other modern American journal.
Starting with its light fantastic evocations of the glamorous and the idiosyncratic in the twenties and continuing to the present, with complex pictures of such contemporaries as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Richard Pryor, The New Yorker's Profiles have presented readers with a vast and brilliant portrait gallery of our day and age. These literary-journalistic investigations into character and accomplishment, motive and madness, beauty and ugliness, are unrivaled in their range, variety of style, and embrace of humanity.
To help mark the occasion of The New Yorker's seventy-fifth anniversary,
Life Stories puts into one volume, for the first time, some of the most outstanding examples of this exemplary tradition. Here you will find Wolcott Gibbs on Henry Luce, Lillian Ross on Ernest Hemingway, and Susan Orlean on show dog Biff Truesdale. And in some of the exhibit's many other rooms you will find startling likenesses of Marlon Brando by Truman Capote, magician Ricky Jay by Mark Singer, pitcher Steve Blass by Roger Angell, and Anatole Broyard by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
When they were first published in the magazine, these essential biographies brought insight, amusement, understanding, and, often, joy or sorrow to those who read them. Gathered together here, in Life Stories, they provide us with an album of our era, a rich and diverse appraisal of some of the most prominent members of an entire century's cast.
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A Book with Character.......2007-01-03
If you are a fan of biographies but are intimidated by 1,000-page tomes, Life Stories is a great choice. Some say the New Yorker invented the "profile," and though it does seem the magazine was the first to call its biographical pieces by that name (amazing, considering how ubiquitous the term is today), editor David Remnick is quick to assert that they hardly invented the style. What they have done for decades is find the most interesting people and have the best writers provide illumination. Nearly every profile here is profound and nearly every one of them is short enough to read in a single (long) sitting. And while it's a treat to learn intimate details of some of the most famous people of the 20th century, it's the profiles of the lesser-known people that shine: from Joseph Mitchell's encounter with an aging churchman with a penchant for baking to the story of the Chudnovsky brothers, Russian emigres who built a supercomputer in their apartment from salvaged parts. Fantastic reading from start to finish.
Great stories, Great story tellers.......2006-01-28
The writing is beautiful. The story telling is beautiful. The stories are amazing. Five Stars.
A terrific collection.......2005-09-27
This is a collection of prime examples of the long gone "profile" piece in The New Yorker magazine. They just don't write 'em like this anymore!
Choose Truman Capote's profile of Marlon Brando, or Lillian Ross' profile of Ernest Hemingway, or any of the 20-some other profiles in this book. You will read some of the best writing about some of the most exciting people in 20th Century history.
Is there a second volume in the works? I hope so!
Delightful and Revealing Profiles.......2002-08-03
Hemingway, Baryishnikov, and Henry Luce are the subjects of some of my favorite celebrity profiles in this wonderful book. But topping my list is "Man Goes to See a Doctor", the awesome Adam Gopnik's sweet and funny rendering of his shrink. Here's a snippet: "Your problems remind me of" - and here he named one of the heroes of the New York School. "Fortunately, you suffer from neither impotence nor alcoholism. This is in your favor." Highly recommended!
"Life Stories" Hit the Mark.......2002-07-22
This is a compilation of some of the best Profiles to appear in the New Yorker over the last 80 years. Sometimes you will be familiar with the person being profiled, sometimes not, but in all cases you will find the stories entertaining and the writing, superb.
My favorite Profile happens to be of one of the non-famous persons, George H. Hunter ("Mr. Hunter's Grave," by Joseph Mitchell). It is a story not so much about a person but of a long-forgotten community, and a way of life. Despite being the longest entry in the audio collection, I rewound the tape three or four times to listen to it again and again - it was that good.
Some of the celebrity stories are just as compelling, although, being celebrities, many aspects of their lives are already well known. But this sometimes opened a window into foreshadowing that could not have been appreciated by the reader (or even the writer) at the time the piece was done. One example of this concerns Ernest Hemingway ("How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?", by Lillian Ross). Hidden somewhere in the middle of the Profile, Ross mentions the fact that Hemingway's father had committed suicide. This had no major relation to the story in general, and was probably forgotten by most readers at the time, but we have the perspective of history. And it becomes more than just a tidbit when we realize that Hemingway, too, committed suicide 10 years later, in 1961.
Another eyebrow-raising instance came when hearing about Marlon Brando ("The Duke In His Domain," by Truman Capote). Capote was on location with Brando in Japan as Brando was taking part in the filming of "Sayonara." Brando at one point confesses to Capote that he had to lose weight for the part, and that he wasn't there yet. He still had 10-15 pounds to go. Despite this, the dinners delivered to Brando's hotel room are not those of one looking to cut down; to the contrary, Brando could only gain weight eating the food being sent up to him! Hearing Brando fuss about what he should and should not eat and Capote take note of the rich foods on the tray, it almost seems fake, as if Capote knew how Brando was going to end up. But, of course, he didn't. The story was written in 1957!
But what makes this collection great, though, is the quality of the writing itself. It matters not the subject: actor, comedian, dancer, writer, boxer, even a dog! The common thread running through all the Profiles is the way in which each story is told. Always lucid, always interesting, the stories are less stories and more like works of art.
If you enjoy exceptional writing, this collection is for you. Highly recommended. Five stars.
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Historian Daniel J. Boorstin brings his customary depth and range to this compelling book on Western art, taking on everything from European megaliths (Stonehenge, for example) to Benjamin Franklin's autobiography ("the first American addition to world literature"). Boorstin does not aim at being comprehensive--he much prefers to linger over certain "heroes of the imagination" as he surveys human accomplishment in the fields of architecture, music, painting, sculpting, and writing--yet The Creators certainly feels comprehensive, as Boorstin carefully places everything he describes within a grand tradition of aesthetic achievement.
Boorstin knows that good history demands good writing, and his prose makes this big book easy to absorb. "This is a story," he writes, "of how creators in all the arts have enlarged, embellished, fantasized, and filigreed our experience"--an apt description of the role art plays in our life and an equally apt description of the way Boorstin interprets it for readers. (The Creators also is the second volume of a trilogy that starts with The Discoverers and concludes with The Seekers, although none of these books requires any knowledge of the others.) --John J. Miller
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By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with the scope that made his Discoverers a national bestseller.
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A splendid distillation of a liberal education.......2006-11-23
Question: I read well enough, but don't feel all that well educated. I am too busy or too broke to take college
classes in the evening or whatever. Can acquire a fair bit of liberal education by reading in my spare time?
Answer: Yes. Read Boorstin's "The Creators" and "The Discoverers," and Barzun's "From Dawn to Decadence." You will thereby encounter what is glorious about us humans.
The Discoverers for the more artistically minded.......2006-06-16
The Creators by Daniel Boorstin is an excellant read. This book was more reader friendly then The Discoverers and just as well researched. As Boorstin does in the Discoverers, each chapter tells the life story of an artist/musician/architech and while doing this goes in depth on this person's works.
The areas of focus for this book are:
1. "The Riddle of Creation" (creation stories in differant cultures)
a. Worlds without beginnings (eastern religions)
b. A creator-god (mostly western religions)
2."Creator Man" (stone age through middle ages)
a. The Power of Stone (early monuments)
b. The Magic of Images (writing)
c. The Immortal Word (the first books)
3."Re-Creating the World" (middle ages to 1920's)
a. Otherworldly Elements (religous art)
b. The Human Comedy (books of the late middle ages to more modern books)
c. From Craftsman to Artist (Paintings)
d. Conjuring with time and space (light, buildings, etc.)
4. "Creating the self" (modern times)
a. The Vanguard Word (famous books)
b. The Wilderness Within (authors and painters who excluded themselves from society)
These differant areas cover the main areas of the arts through the ages.
The only problem with this book was the music sections. For some one with no musical experiance, the book was a little over my head. This is about 50-100 pages of the book.
I would suggest this book to others.
one of the greats.......2006-05-21
Most books I read, I think, are on an intellectual level commensurate with my own. Usually I think, "I could probably write this, if I took the time to learn enough."
This book is not one of those. Sure, maybe Daniel didn't pull every bit directly out of his head- he was the Librarian of Congress, which gave him access to plenty of source material.
I don't think I could ever come close to matching this, or any other of Boorstin's achievements. Read this book! It's not as engaging as some- I got through it by making it my permanent bathroom book. It took forever to read it, but it was well worth it.
A must have!.......2006-02-12
I read "The Creators" years ago as a teenager and rediscovered it when cleaning out the old book chest. I highly suggest opening ones mind with this work. "The Creators" is a how-to manual of human thought. It is not meant to be a thrilling adventure story. Boorstin takes you step by step through the imagery and imagination that dawned civilization. "The Creators" is for anyone who ever asked, "Why?"
Explores Great Minds From The Arts.......2005-12-21
Boorstin's amazing series about the greatest achievers in the human species continues in this superlative volume. While I loved his previous works, this one is easily my favorite, because it shows how the arts, especially literature, rank as humankind's grandest accomplishment: our species' proudest step away from its beastly nature and into the realm of creator. I am convinced that no other living person could examine these rarefied figures (Dante, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, others) and give us quite the same sort of overview. I love how Daniel Boorstin reasons. He is one of the great thinkers of this time, and this is him at his finest.
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A HISTORY OF HEROES OF THE IMAGINATION.
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Why do poets and artists so often disparage science in their work? For that matter, why does so much scientific literature compare poorly with, say, the phone book? After struggling with questions like these for years, biologist Richard Dawkins has taken a wide-ranging view of the subjects of meaning and beauty in Unweaving the Rainbow, a deeply humanistic examination of science, mysticism, and human nature. Notably strong-willed in a profession of bet-hedgers and wait-and-seers, Dawkins carries the reader along on a romp through the natural and cultural worlds, determined that "science, at its best, should leave room for poetry."
Inspired by the frequently asked question, "Why do you bother getting up in the morning?" following publication of his book The Selfish Gene, Dawkins set out determined to show that understanding nature's mechanics need not sap one's zest for life. Alternately enlightening and maddening, Unweaving the Rainbow will appeal to all thoughtful readers, whether wild-eyed technophiles or grumpy, cabin-dwelling Luddites. Excoriations of newspaper astrology columns follow quotes from Blake and Shakespeare, which are sandwiched between sparkling, easy-to-follow discussions of probability, behavior, and evolution. In Dawkins's world (and, he hopes, in ours), science is poetry; he ends his journey by referring to his title's author and subject, maintaining that "A Keats and a Newton, listening to each other, might hear the galaxies sing." --Rob Lightner
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Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says acclaimed scientist Richard Dawkins; Newton's unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomy and to the breathtaking poetry of modern cosmology. Mysteries don't lose their poetry because they are solved: the solution often is more beautiful than the puzzle, uncovering deeper mysteries. With the wit, insight, and spellbinding prose that have made him a best-selling author, Dawkins takes up the most important and compelling topics in modern science, from astronomy and genetics to language and virtual reality, combining them in a landmark statement of the human appetite for wonder. This is the book Richard Dawkins was meant to write: a brilliant assessment of what science is (and isn't), a tribute to science not because it is useful but because it is uplifting.
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Brilliant.......2007-07-29
I positively love Dawkins literary style. The more of his books you read, the more you can feel how passionate he is about science and the natural world. The "official" book reviews call "Unweaving The Rainbow" a "love letter to science." I suppose you could call it that. I actually found it extremely informative on many scientific subjects, without being overly scientific or complicated. This would be an excellent read for someone who wants to learn something about natural sciences without getting drowned in all the professional, scientific jargon. The only reason I took a star away from this book is because I do feel that he gets a bit carried away with the poetry inserts. I'm not much of a poetry buff anyway, and the regularly inserted poems or poetic briefs only seem to get in the way of the interesting stuff in the book. Otherwise I loved this book immensely and would highly recommend it to anyone, whether scientifically inclined or not!!
Wonder indeed.......2007-07-05
Another master stroke from Dawkins, weaving poetry, science and humanism in his elegant style. Don't miss it.
A thoughtprovoking manifest.......2007-01-14
Dawkin's Unweaving the Rainbow is a skillfully crafted book; his idea of the beauty of nature is romantic - in every sense of the word; and his knowledge of not only biology, physics and chemistry, but also litterature and philosophy is truly amazing.
However, past the middle, towards the end, Unweaving the Rainbow looses some of it's power, before doing a great comeback with the chapter The Balloon of the Mind.
One thing, I - as both an atheist and a person dedicated to religious freedom - found compelling (especially when comparing Unweaving the Rainbow to other writings by Dawkins) is the avoidance of the bashing of religion. Sure, Dawkins makes comments on what he perceives as the ignorance of religion; but overall, the book is one of his best works - except, perhaps, what I would consider his magnus opus: The Ancestors Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution.
Magnifying the beauty of science.......2007-01-02
This book as another complement to Dawkins's fine books (see my review of other books written by Dawkins).
Science and Beauty
Unweaving the Rainbow is a good guide on the beauty of science. Dawkins rightly argues that by deconstructing a rainbow one does not de-mystify its beauty but magnifies it. I like his injection of poetry into his explanation of science.
The book is also about unweaving scientific jargon and explaining it simply to the reader so that the reader is in awe of science. I also like his treatise on genetics and his clarification of the meaning of the `selfish gene'.
Science vs Fraud
My favourite chapter is ch.6, `Hoodwinked with Faery Fancy'. Dawkins unfolds the quakery of Astrology and people who claim supernatural insights or have witnessed supernatural events (he calls it bad poetry). He argues persuasively that when these alleged events are analysed scientifically, they fade into statistical probabilities. The human brain is constructed to filter out what it deems to be important and magnanimous, such as predictions made by astrologers that come true, and blocks out events that have not been fulfilled. When taking everything into context and statistical probabilities, I am certain that majority of predictions do not come true, but some might... and it is these minority of events that we tend to focus on, thus making people believe there is something supernatural in these predictions. This chapter is good medicine for the Fox Mulders out there who just want to believe without evidence.
Carl Sagan and Religion
This is probably the only disagreement I have with the author as far as this book is concerned. At the beginning of Ch 6. `Hoodwinked with Faery Fancy', Dawkins quotes from the late Astronomer, Carl Sagan, who asked in his book, `Pale Blue Dot', how it was that no major religions looked at science and concluded that the universe is better than we thought. That it is larger than the prophets said and grander. Sagan goes on to say that the religionists say that their God is a little god and they want him to stay that way. Sagan said at end that the end that a religion that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science might draw reserves of awe hardly tapped by conventional faiths.
Sagan clearly did not read the Quran. The Quran does ask the reader to look at the heavens and see how it was created, as well as look at a camel and see how it was created. There are things mentioned in the Quran that do tally with the discoveries of modern science, like in the field of Astronomy and the reader of the Quran is continually asked to ponder over creation and find out how it came about. Now I have read materials by Atheists who criticise Muslims who draw attention to science and the Quran. One such Atheist asked whether differential equations would be mentioned in the Quran if it is a science book. The Quran is a book of signs not a book of science. Differential equations, refractive indexes, hyperspace, quantum mechanics etc. would not be mentioned but there are verses that do deal with science (Astronomy, embryology, geography etc.) that can be tested and verified by modern technology. Thus Carl Sagan's criteria would be met by the Quran. Any religion that claims to be of Divine origin should be able to do this and I agree with Sagan's premise, but not his conclusion.
Summary
In general a good book on the beauty of science, especially for someone who is not acquainted with science. Hence a reasonably high rating.
Hasan Ali Imam
Where is wonder?.......2006-10-21
Richard Dawkins needs no introduction. A famous biologist and science communicator, Dawkins has made it his ambition not just to communicate science but also to preach his atheist faith and use science to demolish what in Dawkin's eyes, is a set of illusions created by viruses which infect our mind.
Dawkins is a brilliant scientist and I would also argue, a very good philosopher and theologian of atheism. His arguments against God and also against religious belief are very well focused and very convincing. Indeed, in this work he sets himself the task of ridding the world of any form of outmoded belief which hampers the sense of wonder from the universe science has discovered.
Dawkins criticises a range of figures, from the sociologists of science who notoriously argue science is a community-created worldview with little reality beyond the scientific world, to the poet William Blake to Dawkin's favourite targets, Christian theologians. In his no-nonsense manner he argues there is no room for such anti-scientific nonsense in a world 'decoded' by science which itself is a source of meaning, value and wonder.
I don't dispute with Dawkins that the scientific quest provide a sense of meaning, wonder and value to life. The universe has turned out to be much more than ancient and medieval scientists imagined. However, Dawkins also overlooks the insights of similar depth which are found in myth, in art, in philosophy, and also religion.
Though I disagree, I don't mind Dawkins using science as a handmaiden for his atheistic theology. Really where Dawkins is flawed is his condescending attitude to areas of belief and knowledge outside of the scientific method, which he often treats with great contempt at worst and as foolish fairytales containing some truth at best.
Dawkins is at his best whenever he communicates science, and if he was doing this rather than trying to argue for atheism, I would give this book five stars. Otherwise, it is fair to give four. He is worth reading no matter what his hostility to religion or poetry, because of his paradoxical artistic talents in writing about the beauty of nature as unfolded in the scientific worldview. And in doing that, he justifies my faith that the beauty of the world comes from the beauty of the Absolute itself.
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Unweaving the rainbow: science, delusion and the appetite for wonder.: An article from: Queen's Quarterly
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Topics discussed in this book cover all aspects of combustion from the mechanics and formation of toxic pollutants and their transport/fate in the environment to emission abatement and risk assessment. Leading experts in the field have contributed information from studies ranging from fundamental bench-scale investigations to risk assessment of existing large-scale municipal incinerators. This book will be a valuable reference for scientists, engineers, administrators and environmentalists who must deal with the complex issues of waste management and environmental protection.
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