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Sportsmen and Gamesmen
The gradual transformation of the aristocratic sporting tradition of Britain into a popular one in America is the theme of this work. John Dizikes defines the distinction between …
Yankee Doodle Dandy
In the 1890s, feisty Tod Sloan (1874–1933) abandoned the centuries-old jockey tradition of riding in a straight sitting position and instead crouched low on the neck of his horse. …
Yankee Doodle Dandy
In the 1890s, feisty Tod Sloan (18741933) abandoned the centuries-old jockey tradition of riding in a straight sitting position and instead crouched low on the neck of his horse. …
Opera in America
"I hear the chorus, it is a grand opera, Ah this indeed is music-this suits me."-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" America has had a love affair with opera in all its forms since it …
Love Songs
Poetry was a form of liberation. The all-engrossing subject was love.Love Songs is a collective biography of nine American women poets who lived and wrote, primarily, in the first …