John Florio
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"One Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and America's pastime during the 1960s, when the hallmarks of the sport--fairness, competition, and mythology--came under scrutiny. John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro examine the events of the era that reshaped the game: the Koufax and Drysdale million-dollar holdout, the encroachment of television on newspaper coverage, the changing perception of ballplayers from mythic figures...
2) One punch from the promised land: Leon Spinks, Michael Spinks, and the myth of the heavyweight title
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The story of the first brothers to capture the world heavyweight title, Leon and Michael Spinks, who fought their way out of the projects, took on the biggest names in boxing (including Ali and Tyson), and made millions of dollars.... But one brother would find himself strung-out, back in the projects"--
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
"An NYRB Classics Original Shakespeare, Nietzsche once wrote, was Montaigne's best reader. It is a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate relationship between the ever-changing record of the mutable self constituted by Montaigne's Essays and Shakespeare's kaleidoscopic register of human character. For all that, how much Shakespeare actually read Montaigne remains a matter of uncertainty and debate to this day. That he read...
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