- Paperback: 312 pages
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press; New edition edition (25 April 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0252073134
- ISBN-13: 978-0252073137
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 16.1 x 2.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,872,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"It's so. Daniel A. Nathan's Saying It's So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal brings the eye of an alert cultural critic and historian to diverse narratives of 1919 World Series and its aftermath to explore "questions about historical representation, narrative, and collective memory" and to investigate how we construct meaning. ... Saying It's So offers a superb example of the scholarly study of sport, and, hyperbole aside, it is quite possibly the best book about the Black Sox since Eliot Asinof's Eight Men Out (1963). ... Well-written and well-researched, Saying It's So is that rarity, an entertaining academic book, and it should reward students and scholars of baseball history and American popular culture." -- Trey Stecker, H-Arete "Nathan's writing is completely accessible, his arguments sound, and his conclusions dead on." --Chicago Tribune "Highly recommended." CHOICE
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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 the 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 meaning.
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"Reducing events to stories and getting stories into print," writes the historian Robert Darnton, "is a matter of cultural fitof narrative conventions and newsroom traditions that work as a way of imposing form on the booming, buzzing confusion of the day's events."1 Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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"Reducing events to stories and getting stories into print," writes the historian Robert Darnton, "is a matter of cultural fitof narrative conventions and newsroom traditions that work as a way of imposing form on the booming, buzzing confusion of the day's events."1 Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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