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9781879957589

Rules of the Game

by  Matthew Stevenson, Michael Martin (Editor)


ISBN-10: 1879957582

ISBN-13: 9781879957589

$14.95




Book Specs



Binding

Trade Paper

Publisher

Franklin Square Press

Published on  

Apr 5, 2010

Edition  

1st Edition

Dimensions  

5.90x0.80x8.90 Inches

Weight  

1.20 Pounds

About the Book

Harper's Magazine has been America's preeminent monthly periodical for more than 150 years. Rules of the Game: The Best Sports Writing from Harper's Magazine takes a look into this storied magazine's unparalleled archive and uncovers funny, touching, exciting, intriguing stories of the sporting life, both professional and amateur, and what it means to us. These essays show that how we play and write about sports not only reflect our nation's character, but challenge it. Including stories from Mark Twain and James B. Connolly at the turn of the twentieth century, visiting with George Plimpton, Tom Wolfe, Bill Cardoso, and A. Bartlett Giamatti along the way, and continuing with Lewis Lapham, Rich Cohen, and Pat Jordan today, this collection is the definitive voice on sports-writing through the last hundred years. Edited by Matthew Stevenson and Michael Martin, with a humorous, insightful preface by Roy Blount Jr. (Fifth in the American Retrospective Series.)