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Laying waste to the notion that Abner Doubleday established the modern game of baseball, the author makes a bold case for A.J. Cartwright (1820-1892), an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and avid ballplayer whose keen perception and restless spirit codified the rules of the sport and engineered its rapid spread throughout the country. Consulting Cartwright's personal correspondence and papers, its shown how he synthesized a number of elements from popular...
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"This is the first biography of the enigmatic man who wrote Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, novels that Edmund Wilson has called 'more finished and complete as works of art than almost anything else produced by his generation.' Jay Martin set out to retrace the curve of Nathanael West's life, from New York City, where West was born in 1903 and lived for many years; to the campuses of Tufts College and Brown University; to Bucks County,...
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Based on original sources, this book tells the full story of the life and times of the eminent American philosopher, pragmatist, education reformer, and man of letters, John Dewey. During his lifetime (1859-1952), he was regarded by poll after poll as one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His philosophy, Pragmatism, has been the distinctive American philosophy during the last fifty years. His work on education is famous worldwide...
8) One hundred years of Huckleberry Finn: the boy, his book, and American culture : centennial essays
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Twenty-five essays written by a group of scholars which reassesses the status of Twain's Huckleberry Finn in American literature and in contemporary American culture, reevaluating past scholarship and exploring new directions. A biography of the book's first hundred years (in 1985).