Robert Gottlieb: 11 books

Book cover of Avid Reader

Avid Reader

A Life

by Robert Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time 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...
Book cover of Reinventing Los Angeles

Reinventing Los Angeles

Nature and Community in the Global City

by Robert Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007

Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how innovative social movements are working to make a more livable and sustainable city. Los Angeles—the place without a sense of place, famous for sprawl and overdevelopment and...
Book cover of Near-Death Experiences . . . and Others
by Robert Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018

A new collection of immersive essays from the most acclaimed editor of the second half of the twentieth century This new collection from the legendary editor Robert Gottlieb features twenty or so pieces he’s written mostly for The New York Review of Books, ranging from reconsiderations of...
Book cover of Food Justice
by Robert Gottlieb, Anupama Joshi
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010

The story of how the emerging food justice movement is seeking to transform the American food system from seed to table. 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,...
Book cover of Global Cities

Global Cities

Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China

by Robert Gottlieb, Simon Ng
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017

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. Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities—in financial,...
Book cover of George Balanchine

George Balanchine

The Ballet Maker

by Robert Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010

The foremost contemporary choreographer in the history of ballet, George Balanchine extended the art form into radical new paths that came to seem inevitable under his direction. He transformed movement and dance in classical and modern ballet, on the Broadway stage, and in the cinema. George...
Book cover of Great Expectations

Great Expectations

The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens

by Robert Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012

The strange and varied lives of the ten children of the world's most beloved novelist Charles Dickens, famous for the indelible child characters he created—from Little Nell to Oliver Twist and David Copperfield—was also the father of ten children (and a possible eleventh). What happened...
Book cover of Lives and Letters
by Robert Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011

The product of a lifetime immersed in the literary, performing arts, and entertainment worlds, Lives and Letters spotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of a vast array of celebrated writers and performers in film, theater, and dance, and some of the more curious iconic...
Book cover of Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt
by Robert Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010

Book cover of Reducing Toxics

Reducing Toxics

A New Approach To Policy And Industrial Decisionmaking

by Robert Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013

In Reducing Toxics, leading experts address industry, technology, health, and policy issues and explore the potential for pollution prevention at the industry and facility levels. They consider both the regulatory and institutional settings of toxics reduction initiatives, prescribe strategies for...
Book cover of Forcing the Spring

Forcing the Spring

The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement

by Robert Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2005

"...[a] provocative and original account..." --NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Originally published in 1993, Forcing the Spring was quickly recognized as a seminal work in the field of environmental history. The book links the environmental movemthat emerged in the 1960s to earlier movements that had not...
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