Maury Klein (1) (1939–)
Forfatter af Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War
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Om forfatteren
Maury Klein is professor of history at the University of Rhode Island
Værker af Maury Klein
The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America (2008) 153 eksemplarer
Union Pacific: The Reconfiguration: America's Greatest Railroad from 1969 to the Present (2011) 39 eksemplarer
Stealing Games: How John McGraw Transformed Baseball with the 1911 New York Giants (2016) 34 eksemplarer
The Change Makers: From Carnegie to Gates, How the Great Entrepreneurs Transformed Ideas into Industries (2003) 24 eksemplarer
The Flowering of the Third America: The Making of an Organizational Society 1850-1920 (1993) 13 eksemplarer
Associated Works
Major Problems in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era: Documents and Essays (1993) — Bidragyder — 77 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Klein, Maurice Nickell
- Fødselsdato
- 1939-03-14
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Bopæl
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Los Angeles, California
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Amarillo, Texas
Denver, Colorado (vis alle 7)
Rhode Island - Uddannelse
- Knox College
Emory University - Erhverv
- historian
professor
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The life and legend of Jay Gould af Maury Klein
Gould, Jay (Subject)
I’ve found that many of the best baseball books are not written by the beat reporters or the sports journalists, but rather by writers from different fields (George Will and David Halberstam to name two), as they seem to layer an extra dose of freshness and enthusiasm for the game atop their well-honed literary skills. Maury Klein’s Stealing Games: How John McGraw Transformed Baseball with the 1911 New York Giants fits right in that category. Klein, a renowned historian of American business and economy, has written an erudite yet wholly accessible paean to a classic team and one of the preeminent managers of the deadball era. The first third of the book traces McGraw’s path from his hardscrabble beginnings through his playing days as a hard-nosed shortstop and manager in Baltimore, and then chronicles McGraw’s scientific tactical approach to the game, his sharp eye for talent, and the player trades and acquisitions that laid the groundwork for that remarkable 1911 New York Giants team, carefully built with a dual emphasis on speed and pitching. That team stole an amazing 347 bases and boasted a powerful starting staff that included the Hall of Famers Christy Mathewson (26-13), and Rube Marquard (24-7). The final two thirds of the book provides a month-by-month account of the season and World Series played against Connie Mack’s Philadelphia Athletics. Stealing Games paints a colorful narrative of one of the most exciting teams from that bygone era.… (mere)
A study of the Crash of 1929; less higher-pitched (though just as anecdotal) as Galbraith's famous work. The book actually goes back to the end of World War I to set the table for the Crash; we don't actually get into the Crash until about half-way through. I'm not really sure how much new ground is broken in this book, other than the author summarizes (at the start) the fact that there's disagreement (including Galbraith). Good choice of illustrations.
Poor - Starts each chapter with negative quotes then lists why they are positive - Reads like a dry trial.
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- Værker
- 21
- Also by
- 1
- Medlemmer
- 1,098
- Popularitet
- #23,392
- Vurdering
- 3.8
- Anmeldelser
- 13
- ISBN
- 58
- Sprog
- 1