The Great Game by John Steele Gordon

The Great Game by John Steele Gordon

The poems of Ulrike Almut Sandig are at once simple and fantastic. This new collection finds her on her way to imaginary territories. Thick of It charts a journey through two hemispheres to the center of the world and navigates a thicket that is at once the world, the psyche, and language itself. The poems explore an urgently urban reality, but that reality is interwoven with references to nightmares, the Bible, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes--all overlaid with a finely tuned longing for a disappearing world. The old names are forgotten, identities fall away; things disappear from the kitchen; everything is sliding away. Powerful themes emerge, but always mapped onto the local, the fractured individual in the thick of it all. This is language at its most crafted and transformative, blisteringly contemporary, but with a kind of austerity, too. By turns comic, ironic, skeptical, nostalgic, these poems are also profoundly musical, exploiting multiple meanings and stretching syntax, so that the audience is constantly kept guessing, surprised by the next turn in the line.

John Steele Gordon is a notable historian specialized in business and financial history in the United States. Gordon has been a full-time writer for the past nineteen years, and his work has appeared in Forbes, Forbes FYI, Worth, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal's Op-Ed pages, and The Washington Post's Book World and Outlook, among other publications. He has been a contributing editor at American Heritage magazine since 1989, where he has written the Business of America column. These essays are collected in his book The Business of America (Walker & Company, 2001). Gordon's sixth book is A Thread Across the Ocean: The Epic Tale of the Transatlantic Cable (Walker & Company, 2002).

His first book, Overlanding, was released by Harper & Row in 1975 and chronicled his experience driving a Land Rover from New York to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, over a three-month journey of 39,000 miles. The Scarlet Lady of Wall Street, a history of Wall Street in the 1860s, followed. John Steele Gordon is a frequent guest on Public Radio International's Marketplace, a daily business news show broadcast on over 200 stations nationwide. He's also featured on CNBC's Business Center, PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, The News with Brian Williams, and c-span's Booknotes with Brian Lamb, among other radio and television shows.

He has also appeared in several television documentaries about American and economic history, including CNBC's The Great Game, which is based on his book, and Ric Burns' New York: A Documentary Film. North Salem, New York, is home to John Steele Gordon. An Empire of Wealth: A History of the American Economy is his latest project, which will be published by HarperCollins.

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ISBN 13	9780684832876
ISBN 10	0684832879
Title	The Great Game
Author	John Steele Gordon
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster Ltd
Year published	1999-10-26
Number of pages	319
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