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Johnny Smith

War Fever

Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War

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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 harbo… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Roberts, Randy
  • ISBN: 978-1-5416-7268-0
  • EAN: 9781541672680
  • Produktnummer: 34460709
  • Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 368 S.
  • Ausstattung: Trade Paperback; Trade Paperback
  • Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.0 cm

Über den Autor


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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