There's a Country In My Cellar: [Hardcover]

Russell Baker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1990

Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author Russell Baker, one of America's most beloved social commentators, compiles a collection of his best New York Times columns. Contains all-new material in which Baker details episodes from his life--a follow-up to Baker's bestselling The Good Times.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Not necessarily the best but, rather, approximately 150 of some of the best of Baker's 3800 "Observer" columns (totaling nearly three million words) that have appeared in the New York Times since July 16, 1962. They deal mostly with money, nonsense, places, roots, the New Age, events of 1968, television (Baker keeps his set in the cellar), the gourmet revolution and the low state of the mother tongue. A long piece, "The Becoming Looseness of Doom," is adapted from an address to a college graduating class, and a few personal columns reveal "a somewhat staid, conservative fellow gone a bit long in the tooth and, therefore, starting to believe that it was a better world when he was a youth." The essays should be read a few at a time, over weeks or months; although many of them seem as valid today as they did 10, 20 or 30 years ago, several have dated. But the collection will please Baker's devoted fans and may induce others to subscribe to the Times in order to keep up with his latest skeptical sallies.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal

YA-- Surely among the 130+ columns Baker has reprinted, primarily from the New York Times, readers will be able to find numerous articles to chortle over. If, however, they desire a short lesson in American temperament from 1963 to the present, it can be had by reading the book straight through. Social history of the '60s returns full flower. Gentle satire will be easily recognized by teens in such articles as "Bulmer strikes back" and "On helping youth help itself."
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 428 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co; 1st edition (September 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688095984
• ISBN-13: 978-0688095987
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 5.8 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,859,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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