false 559193 0 0 1440334 159558188X 9781595581884 13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204132989m/1440334.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1440334.The_Runner_A_True_Account_of_the_Amazing_Lies_and_Fantastical_Adventures_of_the_Ivy_League_Impostor_James_Hogue 3.17 35 A classic american story of a homeless drifter who tries to start a new life by applying to Princeton University, based on the acclaimed New Yorker article.

Based on one of the most talked-about New Yorker articles from the past decade—soon to be a major motion picture.

On the morning of March 30, 1988, a police detective named Matt Jacobson arrived at a storage facility in St. George, Utah, with a warrant to search for stolen bicycles. Among the stolen goods and dusty athletic trophies in Locker 100, Jacobson also found some recent correspondence showing that the thief, James Hogue, had been dreaming of a new and better life as a person named Alexi Santana—a self-educated Nevada cowboy who could run a mile in just over four minutes and had applied for admission to some of America's finest universities, including Stanford, Princeton, and Brown.

Thus began a classic American narrative of self-invention that falls somewhere between The Great Gatsby and The Talented Mr. Ripley. Hogue's story—how he fooled the Princeton University admissions department, got straight A's, made the Princeton track team, dated a millionaire's daughter, and was accepted into the elite Ivy Club before his deception was finally exposed—turns out to be both an intensely affecting profile of a dreamer and the limits of his dream, and a striking indictment of the Ivy League "meritocracy" to which Hogue wanted so badly to belong.

Taking off from his widely read New Yorker article, David Samuels adds substantial new reporting, telling the sad story of Hogue's itinerant life after he was expelled from Princeton and providing fascinating new insights into the Ivy League's most famous impostor.]]> 559193 3.36 56 24 2737695 1595581871 9781595581877 11 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2737695.Only_Love_Can_Break_Your_Heart 3.67 21 A brilliant journalist takes us on a skewed odyssey through an american populated by idealists and outsiders in his first book, reminiscent of the classic new journalism of Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion.

Writing for Harper's Magazine and The New Yorker over the last decade, David Samuels has penned a disillusioned love song to the often amusing and sometimes fatal American habit of self-delusion, reporting from a landscape peopled by salesmen, dreamers, radical environmentalists, suburban hip-hop stars, demolition experts, aging baseball legends, billionaire crackpots, and dog track bettors whose heartbreaking failures and occasional successes are illuminated by flashes of anger and humor.

Including profiles of disillusioned Pacific Northwest radicals and Nevada nuclear test site workers alongside coverage of Pentagon press conferences and the Super Bowl in Detroit, Only Love Can Break Your Heart proves Samuels to be a wonderful inheritor of the great journalistic tradition established by Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, and Joan Didion in the 1960s. This first collection of his painstakingly reported and wildly inventive writing reveals the full spectrum of his talents, as well as an unusual sensitivity to both the tragic and comic dissonances bubbling up from the gap between the American promise of endless nirvana and the lives of ordinary citizens who struggle to live out their dreams.]]> 559193 3.36 56 24 6612049 0061146102 9780061146107 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6612049-three-weeks-in-the-sun 0.0 0 559193 3.36 56 24 2484328 1900694298 9781900694292 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2484328.A_Guide_to_Probate_Wills_and_the_Law 0.0 0 559193 3.36 56 24 1781074 0521030625 9780521030625 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188242990m/1781074.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1781074.Ambition_Federalism_and_Legislative_Politics_in_Brazil 0.0 0 559193 3.36 56 24