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1 online resource (xv, 426 pages) |
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| Summary |
"Poetry Night at the Ballpark gathers the best of Bill Kauffman's essays and journalism in defense and explication of his alternative America--or Americas. Its discrete pieces are bound by a thematic unity and propulsive energy and are full of unexpected (yet startlingly apposite) connections and revelatory linkages. Whether he's writing about conservative Beats, backyard astronomers, pacifist West Pointers, or Middle America in the movies, Bill Kauffman will challenge, maybe even change, the way you look at American politics and the American provinces."--Page 4 of cover. |
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Intro; Title Page; Introduction; At the Park; Play Ball!; Bill Kauffman Night at the Ballpark; St. Dennis of the Bleachers; Aw, Canada; Bullish on Buffalo; A Fan's Notes; Writing America; A Note from the Reagan Generation; Frank 'n Nat; From the Outhouse to the White House; The John Wilkes Booth of American Poetry; Jessie Fauset's Birthright; Peace in River City; The Beats Go Right; Ray Bradbury, Regionalist; Wilson's Picket; J. Evetts Haley: The Texan Who Saw Through Lyndon; Vonnegut's Cradle; A Gem of a State; Don't Shoot That Mockingbird!; Shelter from the Storm |
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Elmer Kelton: The Art of CowboyingBasque in It; The Patriot; The Artist as a Kept Man; Southern Comforts; The Last Republican; How I Met Eldridge Cleaver; Friendly Ghosts; My Pen Pal Gore Vidal; I Clean My Gun and Dream of Galveston; Summer Reading List; American Institutions and Holidays; The West Point Story; The Old-Fashioned Three-Day Weekend; To Hell with Earth Day; Long Live Arbor Day!; Shooting Down Mother's Day; The Grinch Who Moved Thanksgiving; The Old College-Why?; The Un-American Game; TV or Not TV?; And They Call it Thanksgiving; In My Literary Backyard |
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Walter Edmonds: Our StalwartWarren Hunting Smith, the Quintessential Genevan; The Oldest Living Novelist Tells All; Review of Samuel Hopkins Adams and the Business of Writing (Syracuse University Press); (John) Gardnering at Night; Harriet Tubman, in a Child's Eye; Ten Years After a Place in Time; My Marlboro Man; The Loneliness of the Long-Dissonant Reader; The Utica Club; The Last Picture Show; At the Movies; Muskets and Misfires: The Revolutionary War on Film; How Not to Watch Copperhead: A Reply to Sidney Blumenthal; Que Surratt, Surratt; The Hollywood (Ten)nessean; Go Home, Limey |
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Murder, Mayhem, and MeatheadPeckinpah Country; Hoosiers Time; Wild (Warren) Oates; Thoroughly Anti-Modern Milius; "Why Not Have Stories Told From Where We Are About Who We Are?" Jay Craven Films Vermont; Lost History; Dick & Julia; Just Deseret; Our (First?) Gay Vice President; Mary Chesnut's View from the Plantation; Poor Old Buck; Unfortunate Son; The Atheist Who Played in Peoria; Toledo's Golden Rule; TR vs. the Dictionary; Our First African President?; The Melodious Veep; O Say Can You Sing?; Quaker for Peace; Barry Goldwater, New Leftist; The Ford Impeachment; The Elector Defector |
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Going to MassHome, Sweet, Home; The Last Gun Show? Not if Doc Spink of Attica, New York, Has Anything to Say About it; Consort of the Onion Queen; American Graffiti; Just My Type; Commencement Address, Batavia High School; Thoughts for Your Penny?; Clang, Clang, Go the Jail Guitar Doors; Court is in Session; Revolt of the Provinces; Home, Boys; Space; Ohio's Backyard Scientist; Earthling, Stay Home!; Visit to a Small Planet; Pols; Mr. Marrou Goes to Juneau; Folky-Fakey Populists; Pat Buchanan: The Last American Leftist; For Sick Willie, Washington is Worth a Massacre; At Least He Inhaled |
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Earl Dodge: He'd Rather Be Right than President |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Conservatism -- United States.
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Conservatism. |
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United States. |
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Populism -- United States.
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Populism. |
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Social problems -- United States.
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Social problems. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Kauffman, Bill. Poetry Night at the Ballpark and Other Scenes from an Alternative America : Writings, 1986-2014. Eugene : Wipf and Stock Publishers, ©2015 |
| ISBN |
9781498270663 (electronic book) |
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1498270662 (electronic book) |
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