Books written by Robert Gottlieb
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America's Saints: The Rise of Mormon Power
After careful research and extensive interiviews, the authors have prepared this compelling and controversial portrait of the Mormon's organizational structure and economic empire-and the men who control both. Index.
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Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now
Here are Jelly Roll Morton, recalling the whorehouse piano players of New Orleans in 1902; Whitney Balliett, profiling clarinetist Pee Wee Russell; poet Philip Larkin, with an eloquently dyspeptic jeremiad against bop.
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Near-Death Experiences . . . and Others
Peter Ackroyd, however, repudiates the idea that the great majority of Collins's novels are without real value. ... ranging from general biographies (The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins; Wilkie Collins: A Life of Sensation) to specialist ...
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Thirst for Growth: Water Agencies as Hidden Government in California
An overview of the key issues of public accountability and water policy innovation that confront urban and agricultural water agencies throughout the country--notably in California where the prospects for future...
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Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change
In Environmentalism Unbound, Robert Gottlieb proposes a new strategy for social and environmental change that involves reframing and linking the movements for environmental justice and pollution prevention.
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Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet
In this book, Robert Gottlieb examines how a care economy and care politics can influence and remake health, climate, and environmental policy, as well as the institutions and practices of daily life.
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Avid Reader: A Life
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.
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Thirst for Growth: Water Agencies as Hidden Government in California
An overview of the key issues of public accountability and water policy innovation that confront urban and agricultural water agencies throughout the country--notably in California where the prospects for future water development have ...
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Global Cities: Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China
In this book, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the global emergence of these urban areas and compare their responses to a set of six urban environmental issues.
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Reading Dance: A Gathering of Memoirs, Reportage, Criticism, Profiles, Interviews, and Some Uncategorizable Extras
Here are the voices of Cecil Beaton and Irene Castle, Ninette de Valois and Bronislava Nijinska, Maya Plisetskaya and Allegra Kent, Serge Lifar and José Limón, Alicia Markova and Natalia Makarova, Ruth St. Denis and Michel Fokine, Susan ...
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A Certain Style: The Art of the Plastic Handbag, 1949-59
The plastic pocketbook, born out of wartime plastic technology, has been rediscovered as an art object. 98 full-color photographs.
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A Life of Its Own: The Politics and Power of Water
Since colonial times, water has inspired concern and contention in the United States. Now a member of the powerful Metropolitan Water Board of Southern California tells the fascinating story of the politics and power of water.
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Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now
Here are Jelly Roll Morton, recalling the whorehouse piano players of New Orleans in 1902; Whitney Balliett, profiling clarinetist Pee Wee Russell; poet Philip Larkin, with an eloquently dyspeptic jeremiad against bop.
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Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City
But in Reinventing Los Angeles, educator and activist Robert Gottlieb describes how imaginative and innovative social movements have coalesced around the issues of water development, cars and freeways, and land use, to create a more livable ...