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Books by William Finnegan
  | | Barbarian Days(Reprint) A Surfing Life by William Finnegan Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2016 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-310939-6, ISBN: 0-14-310939-1 "**Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography**“Reading this guy on the subject of waves and water is like reading Hemingway on bullfighting; William Burroughs on controlled substances; Updike on adultery. . . . a coming-of-age story, seen through the gloss resin coat of a surfboard.” —Sports IllustratedIncluded in President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex ..." |
 | | Cold New World(1st Edition) Growing Up in a Harder Country (Modern Library Paperbacks) by William Finnegan Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1999 by Modern Library Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-75382-4, ISBN: 0-375-75382-6 "From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days, this narrative nonfiction classic documents the rising inequality and cultural alienation that presaged the crises of today. “A status report on the American Dream [that] gets its power [from] the unpredictable, rich specifics of people’s lives.”—Time “[William] Finnegan’s real achievement is to attach identities to the steady stream of faceless statistics that tell us Americ ..." |
 | | A Complicated War(Updated) The Harrowing of Mozambique (Volume 47) (Perspectives on Southern Africa) by William Finnegan Paperback, 325 Pages, Published 1993 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-08266-3, ISBN: 0-520-08266-4 "Powerful, instructive, and full of humanity, this book challenges the current understanding of the war that has turned Mozambique - a naturally rich country - into the world's poorest nation. Before going to Mozambique, William Finnegan saw the war, like so many foreign observers, through a South African lens, viewing the conflict as apartheid's 'forward defense'. This lens was shattered by what he witnessed and what he heard from Mozam ..." |
 | | Barbarian Days(1st Edition) A Surfing Life by William Finnegan, Vv.Aa. Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 2015 by Penguin Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59420-347-3, ISBN: 1-59420-347-4 "**Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography**“Reading this guy on the subject of waves and water is like reading Hemingway on bullfighting; William Burroughs on controlled substances; Updike on adultery. . . . a coming-of-age story, seen through the gloss resin coat of a surfboard.”—Sports IllustratedIncluded in President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex e ..." |
 | | A Complicated War(1st Edition) The Harrowing of Mozambique (Perspectives on Southern Africa) by William Finnegan Hardcover, 325 Pages, Published 1992 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-07804-8, ISBN: 0-520-07804-7 "Powerful, instructive, and full of humanity, this book challenges the current understanding of the war that has turned Mozambique—a naturally rich country—into the world's poorest nation. Before going to Mozambique, William Finnegan saw the war, like so many foreign observers, through a South African lens, viewing the conflict as apartheid's "forward defense." This lens was shattered by what he witnessed and what he heard from Mozambica ..." |
 | | Barbarian Days(1st Edition) by William Finnegan, Howard Hughes Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2016 by Little Brown Books Group ISBN-13: 978-1-4721-5141-4, ISBN: 1-4721-5141-0 "Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. ..." |
 | | Crossing the Line(1st Edition) A Year in the Land of Apartheid by William Finnegan, Philip Gourevitch Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2006 by Persea ISBN-13: 978-0-89255-325-9, ISBN: 0-89255-325-1 "The award-winning debut by the acclaimed author of Cold New World, Named by The New York Times Book Review as a top ten nonfiction book of 1986, this seminal piece of cross-cultural journalism is an account of a white American's experience teaching black students in South Africa--an account essential for its incisive coverage of the student anti-apartheid movement, as well as for the unpretentious charms of its prose." |
 | | Crossing the Line A Year in the Land of Apartheid by William Finnegan Paperback, 434 Pages, Published 1994 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-08872-6, ISBN: 0-520-08872-7 "William Finnegan's compelling account of a year spent teaching in a colored high school, "across the line," in Cape Town, South Africa brings the irrationality and injustice of apartheid into focus for the American reader. A new preface, written after the author's observation of the historic 1994 elections evaluates the progress made—and not made—toward dismantling the apartheid system." |
 | | The Encyclopedia of Surfing(1st Edition) by Matt Warshaw, William Finnegan Paperback, 816 Pages, Published 2005 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-15-603251-3, ISBN: 0-15-603251-1 "What's that sound coming from the beach? That's the rustle of pages turning, as would-be immortals look themselves up in The Encyclopedia of Surfing, surfing's first comprehensive reference book. The Encyclopedia of Surfing chronicles nearly every bit of wave-riding--its history, places, mythology, champions, tragedies, in-jokes, and minutiae. Author Matt Warshaw, former editor of Surfer magazine, and his fellow researchers took three y ..." |
 | | The Encyclopedia of Surfing(1st Edition) by Matt Warshaw, William Finnegan Hardcover, 752 Pages, Published 2003 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-15-100579-6, ISBN: 0-15-100579-6 "What's that sound coming from the beach? That's the rustle of pages turning, as would-be immortals look themselves up in The Encyclopedia of Surfing, surfing's first comprehensive reference book. The Encyclopedia of Surfing chronicles nearly every bit of wave-riding--its history, places, mythology, champions, tragedies, in-jokes, and minutiae. Author Matt Warshaw, former editor of Surfer magazine, and his fellow researchers took three y ..." |
 | | Fight of the Century Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (Paperback) by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jacqueline Woodson, Ann Patchett, Brit Bennett, Steven Okazaki, David Handler, Geraldine Brooks, Yaa Gyasi, Dave Eggers, Timothy Egan, Li Yiyun, Meg Wolitzer, Hector Tobar, Aleksandar Hemon, Elizabeth Strout, Rabih Alameddine, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Egan, Scott Turow, Morgan Parker, Victor Lavalle, Michael Cunningham, Neil Gaiman, Jesmyn Ward, Moses Sumney, George Saunders, Marlon James, William Finnegan, Anthony Doerr, C.J. Anders, Brenda J. Childs, Andrew Sean Greer, Louise Erdrich, Adrian Nicole Leblanc Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2021 by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-9041-4, ISBN: 1-5011-9041-5 "... Steven Okazaki, David Handler, Geraldine Brooks, Yaa Gyasi, Sergio De La Pava, Dave Eggers, Timothy Egan, Li Yiyun, Meg Wolitzer, ... Moriel Rothman- Zecher, Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Egan, Scott Turow, Morgan Parker, Victor Lavalle, ... FIGHT of the CENTURY Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases E D I TED BY MICHAEL CHABON & AYELET ..." |
 | | Fight of the Century Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jacqueline Woodson, Ann Patchett, Brit Bennett, Steven Okazaki, David Handler, Geraldine Brooks, Yaa Gyasi, Dave Eggers, Timothy Egan, Li Yiyun, Meg Wolitzer, Hector Tobar, Aleksandar Hemon, Elizabeth Strout, Rabih Alameddine, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Egan, Scott Turow, Morgan Parker, Victor Lavalle, Michael Cunningham, Neil Gaiman, Jesmyn Ward, George Saunders, Marlon James, William Finnegan, Anthony Doerr, C.J. Anders, Brenda J. Childs, Andrew Sean Greer, Louise Erdrich, Adrian Nicole Leblanc, Moses Sumney, Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, Dave Cole, David Cole Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2020 by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-9040-7, ISBN: 1-5011-9040-7 "To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case.On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Un ..." |
 | | Barbarian Days A Surfing Life (Paperback) by William Finnegan Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2015 by Corsair ISBN-13: 978-1-4721-5139-1, ISBN: 1-4721-5139-9 "WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2016Surfing only looks like a sport. To devotees, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a mental and physical study, a passionate way of life. William Finnegan first started surfing as a young boy in California and Hawaii. Barbarian Days is his immersive memoir of a life spent travelling the world chasing waves through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa and beyond. Finn ..." |
 | | Fight of the Century Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jacqueline Woodson, Ann Patchett, Brit Bennett, Steven Okazaki, David Handler, Geraldine Brooks, Yaa Gyasi, Dave Eggers, Timothy Egan, Li Yiyun, Meg Wolitzer, Hector Tobar, Aleksandar Hemon, Elizabeth Strout, Rabih Alameddine, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Egan, Scott Turow, Morgan Parker, Victor Lavalle, Michael Cunningham, Neil Gaiman, Jesmyn Ward, George Saunders, Marlon James, William Finnegan, Anthony Doerr, C.J. Anders, Brenda J. Childs, Andrew Sean Greer, Louise Erdrich, Adrian Nicole Leblanc, Moses Sumney 288 Pages, Published 2020 by Simon And Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-9042-1, ISBN: 1-5011-9042-3 "... Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Egan, Scott Turow, Morgan Parker, Victor ... A forty-eight-year-old Jewish ACLU volunteer named Allen Brown. Brown died in 2004, but his friend and colleague Norman Slutsky said of him: “If ever there was a Jewish saint, it was Allen." |
 | | Barbarian Days(Large Print) A Surfing Life (Thorndike Press Biographies and Memoirs) by William Finnegan Hardcover, 643 Pages, Published 2016 by Thorndike Press Large Print Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4104-8589-2, ISBN: 1-4104-8589-7 "A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed" New Yorker "writer "Barbarian Days" is William Finnegan s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves ..." |
 | | Barbarian Days A Surfing Life by William Finnegan 384 Pages, Published 2015 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0-698-16374-4, ISBN: 0-698-16374-5 "He had it pitched and zipped tight, and he let me know, with sign language, that if he ever found the zipped mesh left open I could ... A brain fork—a popular Fiji tourist souvenir, purportedly used in cannibal days—might also come into play. ... Peter used Bryan's like a sleeping bag, draping the end flap over his head like a hood. The old man kept the fire going. Each time he threw on a dry palm frond, Peter would wake up and whi ..." |
 | | Barbarian Days A Surfing Life by William Finnegan Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2015 by London: Corsair ISBN-13: 978-1-4721-5140-7, ISBN: 1-4721-5140-2 "William Finnegan first started surfing as a young boy in California and Hawaii. Barbarian Days is his immersive memoir of a life spent travelling the world chasing waves through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa and beyond." |
 | | Legal Alchemy(1st Edition) The Use and Misuse of Science in the Law by David Laurence Faigman, William Finnegan Hardcover, 233 Pages, Published 1999 by St. Martin's Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7167-3143-6, ISBN: 0-7167-3143-6 "Faigman (law, U. of California, Hastings College of the Law) explores the ways the American legal system incorporates scientific knowledge into its decision making. Arguing that many judges, juries, and members of Congress don't understand the science behind their decisions, he suggests ways that science and the law can be better understood and negotiated. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)" |
 | | Cold New World Growing Up In a Harder Co by William Finnegan Paperback, Published 1998 by Random House~Trade ISBN-13: 978-0-375-75198-1, ISBN: 0-375-75198-X "For the export of highly skilled jobs, see William Wolman and Anne Co- lamosca. The Judas Economy: The Triumph of Capital and the Betrayal of Work ( Addi- son -Wesley. 1997), especially pp. 87-138. pages 648-49 "Globalization . . . decline ..." |
 | | Dateline Soweto Travels with Black South African Reporters by William Finnegan Published 1995 ISBN-13: 978-0-585-08149-6, ISBN: 0-585-08149-2 |
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