Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame - Hardcover

Foer, Franklin; Tracy, Marc

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1455516139 ISBN 13: 9781455516131

Verlag: Twelve, 2012

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A must for the bookshelf of any Jewish sports fan.-- " Kirkus Reviews" Marc Tracy and Franklin Foer have compiled JEWISH JOCKS: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame, essays on 'the most influential Jews in sports, ' from athletes, coaches, and owners to broadcasters and statisticians. David Remnick, David Brooks, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jane Leavy, and Steven Pinker are among the heavyweight contributors. You'll laugh, you'll cry.-- "Publishers Weekly", Top 10 Sports Books Fall 2012 Jewish Jocks' ends up convincing you of its theme: The history of Jews in sports is, in important ways, the history of sports.-- "Wall Street Journal" "Will Leitch " Editor's Choice: Fifty well-written brief portraits.--The New York Times Book Review "A skillfull collection... through its sheer comprehensiveness, JEWISH JOCKS also makes the argument that the Jewish athlete isn't an anomaly."-- "Los Angeles Times" "The history of Jews in sports is, in important ways, the history of sports."-- "Wall Street Journal" "Jewish Jocks' ends up convincing you of its theme: The history of Jews in sports is, in important ways, the history of sports." Will Leitch, ""Wall Street Journal""" "Belies the cheap punch line [to] prove that the Jewish sporting tradition is as rich as it is varied. Jewish Jocks features notable writers in peak form." ""Sports Illustrated""" Editor's Choice: "Fifty well-written brief portraits." "The New York Times Book Review"" "A must for the bookshelf of any Jewish sports fan." "" Kirkus Reviews""" "A skillful collection... through its sheer comprehensiveness, JEWISH JOCKS also makes the argument that the Jewish athlete isn't an anomaly." ""Los Angeles Times""" "Marc Tracy and Franklin Foer have compiled JEWISH JOCKS: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame, essays on 'the most influential Jews in sports, ' from athletes, coaches, and owners to broadcasters and statisticians. David Remnick, David Brooks, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jane Leavy, and Steven Pinker are among the heavyweight contributors. You'll laugh, you'll cry." ""Publishers Weekly," Top 10 Sports Books Fall 2012""

Reseña del editor:

If you were a Bar Mitzvah boy in the postwar years, you probably received a gift called Great Jews in Sports. Your goy friends enjoyed a good snicker when they saw it on the shelf above your desk, but you coveted the volume. It not only supplied a pantheon for you to worship; it served as a refutation of all those cheap stereotypes about effeminate, bookish Jews that followed you to Pop Warner try-outs, and that you were convinced resulted in a condescending ten-steps-forward outfield shift during your turn at-bat. So it is with a humble spirit of deference that editors Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy propose its successor: Jewish Jocks: An Unothodox Hall of Fame, a collection of biographical musings on the most influential Jews in sports.

The sports figures profiled in Jewish Jocks go beyond athletes to include coaches, broadcasters, owners, trainers and even statisticians (in the finite universe of Jewish Jocks, they count!) Contributors include some of today's most celebrated writers, such as New Yorker editor David Remnick; novelists Jonathan Safran Foer and Booker-prize winner Howard Jacobson; sports writer Buzz Bissinger; economist Larry Summers; columnist David Brooks; journalists Jane Leavy, Steven Pinker and Dahlia Lithwick writing on figures such as Howad Cosell, Art Shamsky, Kerri Strug, Harold Solomon, Sandy Koufax, Shirley Povitch, and many, many more.

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• Verlag: Twelve
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1455516139
• ISBN 13: 9781455516131
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288