Suitcase Sefton And The American Dream

Author : Jay Feldman
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781572438125

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Suitcase Sefton and the American Dream by Jay Feldman Pdf

Roving the lonesome highways in search of fresh baseball talent in 1942, New York Yankees scout Mac "Suitcase" Sefton discovers a once-in-a-lifetime talent in Jerry Yamada. The young left-handed pitcher seems poised to take his place among the pantheon of major league pitching greats. However, he's being held indefinitely in a Japanese American internment camp, and he's not even certain that he wants to play professional baseball. Caught behind barbed wire in a camp in Arizona, Jerry, his lovely sister, Annie, and their old-world parents make the best of their confinement while Sefton schemes to find a way to free Yamada and convince him to play for the Yanks. Sefton's interest in Yamada and his family changes from professional to personal when he accepts an offer to join the Yamadas for tea in their primitive quarters in a converted army barrack. Sefton's respect for their strength and the values they hold dear develops and deepens as he begins to see how his own lifestyle contrasts with the Yamadas’. A profound change takes place in him as he discusses freedom and the future with Annie. As a result, the relationships between the scout and the Japanese American family strain and strengthen as they share their cultures and lives. Amid baseball, racism, and hope, Sefton and the Yamadas rediscover the American dream.

Author : Robert Elias
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595585288

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The Empire Strikes Out by Robert Elias Pdf

Is the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its own image or instead been at the mercy of broader forces shaping our society and the globe? The Empire Strikes Out gives us the sweeping story of how baseball and America are intertwined in the export of “the American way.” From the Civil War to George W. Bush and the Iraq War, we see baseball's role in developing the American empire, first at home and then beyond our shores. And from Albert Spalding and baseball's first World Tour to Bud Selig and the World Baseball Classic, we witness the globalization of America's national pastime and baseball's role in spreading the American dream. Besides describing baseball's frequent and often surprising connections to America's presence around the world, Elias assesses the effects of this relationship both on our foreign policies and on the sport itself and asks whether baseball can play a positive role or rather only reinforce America's dominance around the globe. Like Franklin Foer in How Soccer Explains the World, Elias is driven by compelling stories, unusual events, and unique individuals. His seamless integration of original research and compelling analysis makes this a baseball book that's about more than just sports.

Author : Kerry Yo Nakagawa
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625851147

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Japanese American Baseball in California by Kerry Yo Nakagawa Pdf

Four generations of Japanese Americans broke down racial and cultural barriers in California by playing baseball. Behind the barbed wire of concentration camps during World War II, baseball became a tonic of spiritual renewal for disenfranchised Japanese Americans who played America's pastime while illegally imprisoned. Later, it helped heal resettlement wounds in Los Angeles, San Francisco, the Central Valley and elsewhere. Today, the names of Japanese American ballplayers still resonate as their legacy continues. Mike Lum was the first Japanese American player in the Major Leagues in 1967, Lenn Sakata the first in the World Series in 1983 and Don Wakamatsu the first manager in 2008. Join Kerry Yo Nakagawa in this update of his 2001 classic as he chronicles sporting achievements that doubled as cultural benchmarks.

Author : Noel Schraufnagel
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786435579

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The Baseball Novel by Noel Schraufnagel Pdf

This annotated bibliography covers approximately 400 novels published from 1838 through 2007. A substantial introduction to the history and development of the genre precedes the chronologically arranged entries, which provide bibliographic details and extensive annotations on plot, themes, and compositional strengths and weaknesses. Mainstream novels by writers such as Hemingway, Wolfe, Roth, and DeLillo are included. Appendices provide historical overviews for the primary baseball subgenres, including mystery, fantasy, and science-fiction; lists for novels that foreground issues of race or ethnicity (or both, as in Winegardner's Vera Cruz Blues), gender (Gilbert's A League of Their Own), and class (Hay's The Dixie Association); and the author's rankings of great baseball novels overall and by subgenre.

Author : D. N.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1088216242

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Suitcase by D. N. Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1206 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066180392

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : University of Wisconsin System. Women's Studies Librarian,University of Wisconsin System. Gender & Women's Studies Librarian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UIUC:30112079281397

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Feminist Collections by University of Wisconsin System. Women's Studies Librarian,University of Wisconsin System. Gender & Women's Studies Librarian Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCD:31175034059678

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 312606910X

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The American Dream by Anonim Pdf

Author : Norman Mailer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:987252250

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An American dream by Norman Mailer Pdf

Author : Jay Feldman
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307388230

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Manufacturing Hysteria by Jay Feldman Pdf

A riveting and unsettling history of the assault on civil rights and liberties in America—from World War I to the War on Terror—by the acclaimed author of When the Mississippi Ran Backwards. In this ambitious and wide-ranging account, Jay Feldman takes us from the run-up to World War I and its anti-German hysteria to the September 11 attacks and Arizona’s current anti-immigration movement. What we see is a striking pattern of elected officials and private citizens alike using the American people’s fears and prejudices to isolate minorities (ethnic, racial, political, religious, or sexual), silence dissent, and stem the growth of civil rights and liberties. Rather than treating this history as a series of discrete moments, Feldman considers the entire programmatic sweep on a scale no one has yet approached. In doing so, he gives us a potent reminder of how, even in America, democracy and civil liberties are never guaranteed.

Author : Ken Mochizuki
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781430129820

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Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki Pdf

"Author Ken Mochizuki reads his award-winning book. There is some soft background music, and a few gentle sound effects, but the power of the words need little embellishment...This treasure of a book is well-treated in this format." - School Library Journal

Author : Jay Feldman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416583103

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When the Mississippi Ran Backwards by Jay Feldman Pdf

From Jay Feldmen comes an enlightening work about how the most powerful earthquakes in the history of America united the Indians in one last desperate rebellion, reversed the Mississippi River, revealed a seamy murder in the Jefferson family, and altered the course of the War of 1812. On December 15, 1811, two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews murdered a slave in cold blood and put his body parts into a roaring fire. The evidence would have been destroyed but for a rare act of God—or, as some believed, of the Indian chief Tecumseh. That same day, the Mississippi River's first steamboat, piloted by Nicholas Roosevelt, powered itself toward New Orleans on its maiden voyage. The sky grew hazy and red, and jolts of electricity flashed in the air. A prophecy by Tecumseh was about to be fulfilled. He had warned reluctant warrior-tribes that he would stamp his feet and bring down their houses. Sure enough, between December 16, 1811, and late April 1812, a catastrophic series of earthquakes shook the Mississippi River Valley. Of the more than 2,000 tremors that rumbled across the land during this time, three would have measured nearly or greater than 8.0 on the not-yet-devised Richter Scale. Centered in what is now the bootheel region of Missouri, the New Madrid earthquakes were felt as far away as Canada; New York; New Orleans; Washington, DC; and the western part of the Missouri River. A million and a half square miles were affected as the earth's surface remained in a state of constant motion for nearly four months. Towns were destroyed, an eighteen-mile-long by five-mile-wide lake was created, and even the Mississippi River temporarily ran backwards. The quakes uncovered Jefferson's nephews' cruelty and changed the course of the War of 1812 as well as the future of the new republic. In When the Mississippi Ran Backwards, Jay Feldman expertly weaves together the story of the slave murder, the steamboat, Tecumseh, and the war, and brings a forgotten period back to vivid life. Tecumseh's widely believed prophecy, seemingly fulfilled, hastened an unprecedented alliance among southern and northern tribes, who joined the British in a disastrous fight against the U.S. government. By the end of the war, the continental United States was secure against Britain, France, and Spain; the Indians had lost many lives and much land; and Jefferson's nephews were exposed as murderers. The steamboat, which survived the earthquake, was sunk. When the Mississippi Ran Backwards sheds light on this now-obscure yet pivotal period between the Revolutionary and Civil wars, uncovering the era's dramatic geophysical, political, and military upheavals. Feldman paints a vivid picture of how these powerful earthquakes made an impact on every aspect of frontier life—and why similar catastrophic quakes are guaranteed to recur. When the Mississippi Ran Backwards is popular history at its best.

Author : Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience
Publisher : New York : Holmes & Meier
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0841909342

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The American Jewish Experience by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience Pdf

Author : Cy Gonick,Canadian Committee on Labour History
Publisher : St. John's, Nfld. : Canadian Committee on Labour History
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015058716229

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A Very Red Life by Cy Gonick,Canadian Committee on Labour History Pdf

Bill Walsh began his career as an organizer for the Communist Party of Canada. He led the drive to organize the rubber workers in Kitchener and subsequently the auto workers in Windsor. He was jailed along with several hundred other Communists. Upon his release, Walsh fought overseas in Holland and Belgium. After the war he took a staff position with the United Electrical Workers in Hamilton.