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Literature, American



link to catalog page PETERSON, Extra Innings

Extra Innings

Writing on Baseball

Author: Richard Peterson
Pub Date: 2001

For die-hard baseball intellectuals, Peterson explores how baseball writers have generated and sometimes challenged the narrative myths of the sport and its players.   learn more...

link to catalog page FERBER, Fanny Herself Author: Edna Ferber
Pub Date: 2001

This intensely personal chronicle of a young girl growing up Jewish in a small midwestern town is the most autobiographical of Pulitzer Prize-winning Ferber’s novels, full of fine, full-blown, and fascinating characters. (UofI’s paperback reprint of Ferber’s So Big has sold close to 7000 copies!)   learn more...

link to catalog page BEHLING, The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935 Author: Laura L. Behling
Pub Date: February 2001

How the popular press and literature translated the woman suffrage movement into a monstrous movement of unnatural masculinized women.   learn more...

link to catalog page DUNNE, Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Author: Finley Peter Dunne
Pub Date: 2001

This reprint makes one of America’s greatest humorists--and one of America’s greatest humorous characters--available again to the public.   learn more...

link to catalog page WEINBERG, The Muckrakers Author: Edited by Arthur Weinberg and Lila Weinberg
Pub Date: 2001

A challenging call to arms for today’s writers to have the courage of the muckrakers and expose abuse of power wherever they find it   learn more...

link to catalog page HALL, Professions

Professions

Conversations on the Future of Literary and Cultural Studies

Author: Edited by Donald E. Hall
Pub Date: 2001

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link to catalog page TAX, Rivington Street Author: Meredith Tax
Pub Date: 2001

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link to catalog page FERBER, Roast Beef, Medium

Roast Beef, Medium

The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney

Author: Edna Ferber
Pub Date: 2001

The adventures of Emma McChesney: smart, savvy, stylish, divorced mother, and Midwest traveling sales representative for T. A. Buck's Featherloom skirts and petticoats. (UofI’s paperback reprint of Ferber’s So Big has sold close to 7000 copies!)   learn more...

link to catalog page BRUNVAND, The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story Author: Jan Harold Brunvand
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2001

Don't believe all the stories you hear   learn more...

link to catalog page MOORE, Very Special Agents

Very Special Agents

The Inside Story of America's Most Controversial Law Enforcement Agency--The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms

Author: James Moore, ATF (Ret.)
Pub Date: 2001

A thorough, extremely readable insider account of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms   learn more...

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