Saying It's So A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal

Name: Saying It's So A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal
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ISBN: 9780252073137

ISBN-10: 0252073134

ISBN-13: 9780252073137

Edition: 2002

Authors: Daniel A. Nathan

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The story of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and his teammates purportedly conspiring with gamblers to throw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds has lingered in our collective consciousness for more than eighty years. Daniel A. Nathan's wide-ranging, interdisciplinary cultural history is less concerned with the details of the scandal than with how it has been represented and remembered by journalists, historians, novelists, filmmakers, and baseball fans. Saying It's So offers a series of astute reflections on what these different cultural narratives reveal about their creators and the eras in which they were created, producing a complex study of cultural values, memory, and the ways people make…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 8/10/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English