The Princeton Anthology of Writing: Favorite Pieces by the Ferris/McGraw Writers at Princeton University
- ISBN-10
- 0691086818
- ISBN-13
- 9780691086811
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 373
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-08-05
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Author
- John McPhee
Description
An extraordinary anthology of writings by fifty-nine outstanding nonfiction writers who have held the Ferris and McGraw professorships at Princeton includes James Gleick's essay on technology, Roger Mudd on the media, Gina Kolata on Fermat's last theorem, and works by Harrison Salisbury, Christopher Wren, Lucinda Frank, David K. Shipler, and others. Simultaneous.
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