Twentieth Century American Sportswriters
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Author | : Richard Orodenker |
Publisher | : Dictionary of Literary Biograp |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Essays on American sportswriters, for which some are the first studies to appear anywhere. Discusses the styles of sportswriting employed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes information on twentieth-century authors who crossed over from"serious" literature to sportswriting, as well as the history of sportswriting.
Author | : Richard Orodenker |
Publisher | : Dictionary of Literary Biograp |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Focuses on nineteenth-century sportswriters and certain writers born after 1930. Discusses the styles of sportswriting employed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes information on twentieth-century authors who crossed over from "serious" literature to sportswriting, as well as the history of sportswriting.
Author | : Richard Orodenker |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Sportswriters |
ISBN | : 9780810309135 |
Author | : David Halberstam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 824 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Capturing the century's greatest moments in every sport from basseball to chess, these authors (Red Smith, Tom Boswell, John Updike, Jim Murray, Norman Mailer, W.C. Heinz, Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Dick Schaap, David Remnick, Ring Lardner, Gay Talese, William Nack, Frank Deford, George Plimpton, Jon Krakauer) and their subjects (including Joe DiMaggio, Secretariat, Bobby Knight, and Muhammad Ali) reflect the rising societal importance of sports in this century, showing how sports have been shaped by such monumental events as war, the civil rights movement, and the changing economyomy.
Author | : Patrick B. Miller |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780415946117 |
The essays presented in this text examine the complexity of black American sports culture, from the organization of semi-pro baseball and athletic programs at historically black colleges and universities, to the careers of individual stars such as Jack Johnson and Joe Louis.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Sports |
ISBN | : |
Presents an overview of sports in the United States and highlights the careers of some memorable athletes of the twentieth century.
Author | : Grant Burns |
Publisher | : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
631 entries spanning the twentieth century from the early 1900s through the mid-1980s.
Author | : Richard H. Cracroft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christopher J. Wheatley |
Publisher | : Dictionary of Literary Biograp |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Represents the diversity and productivity of American drama since 1900. The careers of playwrights whose works achieved notable popularity as well as critical success are presented in some detail. Emphasis is placed on biography and a synthesis of the critical reception of authors' works.
Author | : Michael Strauss |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2018-12-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1984571494 |
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