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(0)Paul Dickson
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Language
English
Description
In the Depression summer of 1932, some 45,000 veterans of World War I descended on Washington to demand the bonus promised them eight years earlier for their wartime service. They lived in shantytowns, white and black together, protested and rallied for their cause. Roy Wilkins saw the model for racial integration here; J. Edgar Hoover built his reputation against the radicals. President Hoover, Army Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur, and others feared...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
227 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"William Shakespeare's written vocabulary consisted of 17,245 words, including hundreds that were coined or popularized by him. Some of the words never went further than their appearance in his plays, but others--like bedazzled, hurry, critical, and anchovy--are essential parts of our standard vocabulary today. Many other famous and lesser-known writers have contributed to the popular lexicon. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Sir Walter...
5) The joy of keeping score: how scoring the game has influenced and enhanced the history of baseball
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
117 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Leo Durocher (19061991) was baseball's all-time leading cocky, flamboyant, and galvanizing character, casting a shadow across several eras, from the time of Babe Ruth to the Space Age Astrodome, from Prohibition through the Vietnam War. For more than forty years, he was at the forefront of the game, with a Zelig-like ability to be present as a player or manager for some of the greatest teams and defining baseball moments of the twentieth century....
7) Words: a connoisseur's collection of old and new, weird and wonderful, useful and outlandish words
Author
Pub. Date
1982
Physical Desc
xi, 366 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
x, 434 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Veeck's sportswriter father became president of the Chicago Cubs when Bill was four, and America's pastime became his lifelong passion. He changed the business and conscience of baseball, leaving his mark on it as few ever did.
