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Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
American Agora Foundation,
2010.
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ISSN: | 1935-7494 ; |
Table of Contents:
- Preamble Field of dreams / Lewis H. Lapham
- 2005: San Diego / David Grann
- c. 1174 BC: Sicily / Virgil
- 1832: Northern Caucasus / Mikhail Lermontov
- 1928: Chicago / Norman Maclean
- c. 1580: Delhi / Abul-Fazl
- 1971: Chicago / Eric Nesterenko
- c. 300: Rome / Lord Byron
- 1991: Coney Island / Darcy Frey
- 29 BC: Japan / Nihongi
- 1507: Urbino / Baldassare Castiglione
- 1986: New Jersey / Richard Ford
- c.190: Rome / Edward Gibbon
- 1903: United States / Philip Roth
- 1954: Oxford / Roger Bannister
- c. 1875: St. Petersburg / Leo Tolstoy
- c. 215: China / Liu Jian
- 1621: Oxford / Robert Burton
- 1933: New York City / Damon Runyon
- 1896: England / A.E. Housman
- c. 1978: Lagos / Hakeem Olajuwon
- c.2050 BC: Nippur / Shulgi
- c. 1930: Berlin / Vladimir Nabokov
- 1885: United States / Minna Caroline Smith
- c. 1000: Turkestan / Ferdowsi
- 1893: Cove Neck, NY / Theodore Roosevelt
- c. 500 Wallingford / Chretien De Troyes
- c. 1943: United States / League Rules of Conduct
- 1923: Marvis Bay / P.G. Wodehouse
- 1998: Uruguay / Eduardo Galeano
- c. 1920: Nairobi / Beryl Markham
- c. 700 BC: Sparta / Plutarch
- c. 458 BC: Thebes / Pindar
- 1970: Atlanta / George Plimpton
- 2006: Queens / Andre Agassi
- c.430 BC: Athens / Herodotus
- 1830: Paris / Honore De Balzac
- c. 1952: Pittsburgh / Annie Dillard
- c. 1657: Paris / Blaise Pascal
- 1992: New York City / Yusef Komunyakaa
- 1896: Paris / Pierre De Coubertin
- 1955: Churchill Downs / William Faulkner
- 1849: Tahiti / Herman Melville
- 1962: Green Bay / Vince Lombardi
- 1903: Detroit / Ford, Henry
- 1944: Yugoslavia / Charles Simic
- 1865: Wonderland / Lewis Carroll
- 1887: India / Kate Martelli
- 1618: Lancashire / King James I of England
- 1977: Milwaukee / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- c.590 BC: Athens / Lucian
- 1653: Staffordshire / Izaak Walton
- 1996: United States / Chuck Palahniuk
- c. 1300 BC: Boeotia / Ovid
- 1891: Kashmir / Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe
- 1897: London / Henry Newbolt
- 1983: Anchorage / Gary Paulsen
- c. 109: Rome / Pliny the Younger
- 1846: Brooklyn / Walt Whitman
- 1911: San Diego / A.G. Spaulding
- 1959: Washington, D.C. / House Subcommittee Testimony
- 2007: Oakmont, PA / John McPhee
- c. 1615: Wu-Ling / Yang Sichang
- 1951: New York City / A.J. Liebling
- c. 1910: Philippines / Victor Heiser
- 1834: Oklahoma / George Catlin
- 1963: Martins Ferry, OH / James Wright
- c. 383: Rome / St. Augustine
- 1921: Rutherford, NJ / William Carlos Williams
- c.1280: Khanbaliq / Marco Polo
- 1987: Wembley / Nick Hornby
- 1893: Havana / Jose Raul Capablanca
- 1951: Brooklyn / Doris Kearns Goodwin
- c. 100: Alexandria / Dion Chrysostom
- 1894: Baltimore / H.L. Mencken
- 1969: Mexico / Ryszard Kapuscinski
- 1884: Richmond / Anonymous Letter
- 1958: San Francisco / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- 212 BC: Olympia / Polybius
- 1854: Yokohama / Commodore Matthew C. Perry
- 1925: Pamplona / Ernest Hemingway
- 27: Fidenae / Tacitus
- 1883: New Orleans / Mark Twain
- 1965: New York City / John Steinbeck
- 1939: New York City / Lou Gehrig
- Skate Fever / Jay Griffiths
- The comeback kid / Terry McDonell
- The great game / Caroline Alexander
- The best of it / Beth Raymer
- Wordplay / Simon Maxwell Apter
- Conversations / Berra, Northbrooke, Huizinga
- Reconsideration: The glass bead game / John Crowley.