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Author : Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Valerie Tripp
Publisher : American Girl Publishing Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781562472627
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book Samantha's Pastimes written by Valerie Tripp and published by American Girl Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Orlando Warren
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440142300
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lynchings and Other American Pastimes written by Orlando Warren and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pastimes referred to are even more than what has happened, and still happens, to people of African descent in our country. Our American Pastimes are the remnants of our collective American past, especially when it comes to acts of violence against the helpless-whether the helpless are the so called Other by group designation, or morphs into the Other because of differing world views. And, of course, there are those who become the Other because the perpetrator, be it stranger or family member, has never felt any other way. The legacy of the damaged is to continue what they know best. Lynchings and Other American Pastimes attempts to answer, through its stories - by and about people of color - the question of whether America can and will purge itself of its legacy of racial hate, which has been passed down from generation to generation. It is not meant to address only those who call themselves black, but people of differing hues, differing economic and political designations, who are all too similar when it comes to the damage - the havoc - that our pastimes reek on ourselves...and most on those we love.
Author : Charles A. Peverelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Book of American Pastimes written by Charles A. Peverelly and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Red Smith
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598532766
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (The Library of America) written by Red Smith and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith was the most widely read sportswriter of the last century and the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. From the 1940s to the 1980s, his nationally syndicated columns for the New York Herald Tribune and later for The New York Times traversed the world of sports with literary panache and wry humor. “I’ve always had the notion,” Smith once said, “that people go to spectator sports to have fun and then they grab the paper to read about it and have fun again.” Now, writer and editor (and inventor of Rotisserie League Baseball) Daniel Okrent presents the best of Smith’s inimitable columns—miniature masterpieces that remain the gold standard in sportswriting. Here are Smith’s indelible profiles of sports luminaries, which show his gift for distilling a career’s essence in a single column. Unforgettable accounts of historic occasions—Bobby Thompson’s Shot Heard ’Round the World, Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series, the first Ali-Frazier fight—are joined by more offbeat stories that display Smith’s unmistakable wit, intelligence, and breadth of feeling. Here, too, are more personal glimpses into Smith’s life and work, revealed in stories about his lifelong passion for fishing and in “My Press-Box Memoirs,” a 1975 reminiscence for Esquire collected here for the first time. A Special Publication of The Library of America.
Author : Harold Schechter
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312282769
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book Savage Pastimes written by Harold Schechter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this cogent and well-researched book, Harold Schechter argues that, unlike the popular conception of the media inciting violence through displaying it, without these outlets of violence in the media a basic human need would not be met and would have to be acted out in much more destructive ways. Schechter demonstrates how violent images saturated the earliest newspaper, how art and disturbing images are not incompatible and how the demoaisation of comic books in the 1950s det up a pattern of equating testosterone fuelled entertainment with aggression.
Author : Mark Dyreson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317572688
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book American National Pastimes - A History written by Mark Dyreson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the colonies that became the USA were still dominions of the British Empire they began to imagine their sporting pastimes as finer recreations than even those enjoyed in the motherland. From the war of independence and the creation of the republic to the twenty-first century, sporting pastimes have served as essential ingredients in forging nationhood in American history. This collection gathers the work of an all-star team of historians of American sport in order to explore the origins and meanings of the idea of national pastimes—of a nation symbolized by its sports. These wide-ranging essays analyze the claims of particular sports to national pastime status, from horse racing, hunting, and prize fighting in early American history to baseball, basketball, and football more than two centuries later. These essays also investigate the legal, political, economic, and culture patterns and the gender, ethnic, racial, and class dynamics of national pastimes, connecting sport to broader historical themes. American National Pastimes chronicles how and why the USA has used sport to define and debate the contours of nation. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Author : Stefan Szymanski
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815782599
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Download or read book National Pastime written by Stefan Szymanski and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Szymanski and Zimbalist pay special attention to the rich and complex evolution of baseball from its beginnings in America, and they trace modern soccer from its foundation in England through its subsequent expansion across the world.
Author : Mark Dyreson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317572696
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book American National Pastimes - A History written by Mark Dyreson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the colonies that became the USA were still dominions of the British Empire they began to imagine their sporting pastimes as finer recreations than even those enjoyed in the motherland. From the war of independence and the creation of the republic to the twenty-first century, sporting pastimes have served as essential ingredients in forging nationhood in American history. This collection gathers the work of an all-star team of historians of American sport in order to explore the origins and meanings of the idea of national pastimes—of a nation symbolized by its sports. These wide-ranging essays analyze the claims of particular sports to national pastime status, from horse racing, hunting, and prize fighting in early American history to baseball, basketball, and football more than two centuries later. These essays also investigate the legal, political, economic, and culture patterns and the gender, ethnic, racial, and class dynamics of national pastimes, connecting sport to broader historical themes. American National Pastimes chronicles how and why the USA has used sport to define and debate the contours of nation. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Author : Stephen C. Wood
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786413898
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book Reel Baseball written by Stephen C. Wood and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-01-16 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only are movies and baseball two of America's favorite pastimes, they are integral parts of our culture. Small wonder that the two frequently merge in Hollywood's use of baseball themes, jargon, and icons. This work on baseball in the movies is organized into four sections examining different aspects of the cultural intersection between film and baseball. In the first three sections--"Baseball in Baseball Films," "Babe Ruth and the Silver Screen," and "Baseball in Non-Baseball Films"--essays by scholars in various disciplines cover such topics as symbols, the role of family, baseball as a facilitator of violence, and the American mythos. The fourth section consists of interviews with directors (such as Ron Shelton and Penny Marshall), actors (Kevin Costner, James Belushi), and baseball personnel (broadcaster Vin Scully, coach Rod Dedeaux) who have worked in baseball films. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
