商品簡介
Epstein, popular essayist and former educator, offers a series of 40 pieces, each on a famous and/or otherwise notable individual. The carefully chosen subjects include historian, philosopher, and soldier Xenophon of ancient Greece to George Washington and literary icon Susan Sontag. The whole is an interesting and varied collection, including politicians and leaders, authors and poets of all stripes, comedians, athletes, scientists, and more. The author offers a new way of looking at some familiar figures. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Joseph Epstein is a long time resident of Chicago. Joseph Epstein has taught English and writing at
Northwestern for many years. He is the author of 22 books, many of them collections of essays, and
has also written for numerous magazines including the New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Commentary.
