War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War - Tapa blanda

Roberts, Randy

 
9781541672680: War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War
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ISBN 10: 1541672682 ISBN 13: 9781541672680
Editorial: Basic Books, 2021

Sinopsis

In War Fever, celebrated sports historians Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith explore the monumental changes taking place in Boston during the Great War through the stories of three men: Karl Muck, the German conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Charles Whittlesey, a Harvard Law Student who was called to service and became an unlikely leader; and perhaps the most famous baseball player of all time, Babe Ruth. Each was cast into the turmoil of the war, and each emerged as a public figure of one sort or another: one a villain, one a hero, one an athlete.

Throughout the war, Bostonians lived on high alert; fearing an attack on the city's harbor, mines were anchored in the bay and a wire net stretched across the channels to prevent German submarines from encroaching. In an ethnically diverse city, fraught with tension between interventionists and pacifists, the war unleashed intolerance, hostility, and xenophobia. Together, the stories of these three men reveal how a city and a nation confronted the havoc of a new world order, the struggle to endure the war, and all its unforeseen consequences. At once a gripping narrative of American culture in upheaval and a sweeping account of the conflict, War Fever is narrative history at its best.

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Randy Roberts is the 150th anniversary distinguished professor of history at Purdue University. He is the award-winning author of many books on the intersection of popular and political history, including A Season in the Sun: The Rise of Mickey Mantle (with Johnny Smith). He lives in Lafayette, Indiana.

Johnny Smith is the J. C. "Bud" Shaw professor of sports history and an associate professor of history at Georgia Tech. He is the coauthor of Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X (with Randy Roberts). He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Editorial
Basic Books
Año de publicación
2021
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ISBN 10 
1541672682
ISBN 13 
9781541672680
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Número de páginas
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9781541672666: War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War

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ISBN 10:  1541672666 ISBN 13:  9781541672666
Editorial: Basic Books, 2020
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