War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War
by Randy Roberts, Johnny Smith
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 1541672666
- ISBN 13
- 9781541672666
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Basic Books, 2020. Hardcover. New/New. A clean crisp well preserved 2020 Basic Books hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A "richly detailed" portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston (Michael S. Neiberg): baseball star Babe Ruth, symphony conductor Karl Muck, and Harvard Law student Charles Whittlesey.
In the fall of 1918, a fever gripped Boston. The streets emptied as paranoia about the deadly Spanish flu spread. Newspapermen and vigilante investigators aggressively sought to discredit anyone who looked or sounded German. And as the war raged on, the enemy seemed to be lurking everywhere: prowling in submarines off the coast of Cape Cod, arriving on passenger ships in the harbor, or disguised as the radical lecturing workers about the injustice of a sixty-hour workweek.
War Fever explores this delirious moment in American history through the stories of three men: Karl Muck, the German conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, accused of being an enemy spy; Charles Whittlesey, a Harvard law graduate who became an unlikely hero in Europe; and the most famous baseball player of all time, Babe Ruth, poised to revolutionize the game he loved. Together, they offer a gripping narrative of America at war and American culture in upheaval.
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In the fall of 1918, a fever gripped Boston. The streets emptied as paranoia about the deadly Spanish flu spread. Newspapermen and vigilante investigators aggressively sought to discredit anyone who looked or sounded German. And as the war raged on, the enemy seemed to be lurking everywhere: prowling in submarines off the coast of Cape Cod, arriving on passenger ships in the harbor, or disguised as the radical lecturing workers about the injustice of a sixty-hour workweek.
War Fever explores this delirious moment in American history through the stories of three men: Karl Muck, the German conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, accused of being an enemy spy; Charles Whittlesey, a Harvard law graduate who became an unlikely hero in Europe; and the most famous baseball player of all time, Babe Ruth, poised to revolutionize the game he loved. Together, they offer a gripping narrative of America at war and American culture in upheaval.
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- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1468
- Title
- War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War
- Author
- Randy Roberts, Johnny Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 3
- ISBN 10
- 1541672666
- ISBN 13
- 9781541672666
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Date Published
- 2020
- Keywords
- Charles Whittlesey, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Spies, Spanish Flu, 1918 Pandemic, Karl Muck, Edward Grant Barrow, World Series, Boston Red Sox, Camp Upton, Ty "Georgia Peach" Cobb, Fenway Park, Great War, Fort Oglethorpe, Harry Frazee, Harry Hooper,
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