Poetry night at the ballpark and other scenes from an alternative America : writings, 1986-2014 /
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| Author / Creator: | Kauffman, Bill, 1959- author. |
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| Imprint: | Eugene, OR : Front Porch Republic Books, [2015] ©2015 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 426 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12352986 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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