William Finnegan: 4 books

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...

****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...

Il surf è un'arte dai molti paradossi, in cui il desiderio di mostrarsi non è mai separato da quello di essere soli con le onde e sparire dietro un sipario di schiuma. "Le onde sono il campo da gioco. Il fine ultimo". Ma sono anche l'avversario, la nemesi. William Finnegan ha subito l'incanto...

Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...