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- catalog abstract "Through these varied essays on politics, ethics, music, race, and culture Philip Martin admits "a minor obsession" with what he calls "the American Frolic"--The essential lack of seriousness with which many of us approach the questions inherent in living in a free society. He observes that Americans have been conditioned to react, not to consider; that while we are very good at ripostes and snappy comebacks, at cracking wise and looking smart, we often fail to authentically engage the issues with which we pretend to be most concerned. We inadvertently talk past one another, he says, resorting to cant and partisan boilerplate. In the essays presented in The Shortstop's Son, Philip Martin rigorously resists easy labels and rote ideological truths. He pursues more subtle meanings with a common-sense lucidity and a fundamental compassion for humanity. Whether writing about the mythos built upon Bonnie and Clyde's bullet-ridden Ford or the ignoble death and burial of blues legend Blind Lemon Jefferson, Martin strikes the chord that both moves and informs.".
- catalog contributor b10435832.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "A Murder Story -- Christmas in NYC -- In Paris -- Click Song: Some Blues for Dr. King -- Forgiving Elvis -- Assassination Thing -- Blood Requites -- God and Man in the Land of Nod -- Waiting for the End of the World -- Why Not Revenge? -- World Gone Wrong -- Remembering Rebecca -- White-Haired Bum -- The Suicide's Life -- The Cult of the Good-Looking Corpse -- McNamara -- Abraham Lincoln's Cool Fire -- He Never Had It Made -- What We Signed Up For -- The Guerrillas in Our Midst -- A Pornography of Guns -- Limbaugh Nation -- TV: The Real World -- An End to Prohibition -- Big Men and Bell Curves -- Having MTV -- What Were the Police Doing in the Park? -- The Yankee Woman -- Toward a Tyranny of the Dull Normal.".
- catalog description "In the essays presented in The Shortstop's Son, Philip Martin rigorously resists easy labels and rote ideological truths. He pursues more subtle meanings with a common-sense lucidity and a fundamental compassion for humanity. Whether writing about the mythos built upon Bonnie and Clyde's bullet-ridden Ford or the ignoble death and burial of blues legend Blind Lemon Jefferson, Martin strikes the chord that both moves and informs.".
- catalog description "Through these varied essays on politics, ethics, music, race, and culture Philip Martin admits "a minor obsession" with what he calls "the American Frolic"--The essential lack of seriousness with which many of us approach the questions inherent in living in a free society. He observes that Americans have been conditioned to react, not to consider; that while we are very good at ripostes and snappy comebacks, at cracking wise and looking smart, we often fail to authentically engage the issues with which we pretend to be most concerned. We inadvertently talk past one another, he says, resorting to cant and partisan boilerplate.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 191 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Shortstop's son.".
- catalog identifier "1557284830 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "1557284849 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Shortstop's son.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press,".
- catalog relation "Shortstop's son.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "814/.54 21".
- catalog subject "Journalism United States.".
- catalog subject "Journalists United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Martin, Philip, 1958-".
- catalog subject "PN4874.M4826 A25 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "A Murder Story -- Christmas in NYC -- In Paris -- Click Song: Some Blues for Dr. King -- Forgiving Elvis -- Assassination Thing -- Blood Requites -- God and Man in the Land of Nod -- Waiting for the End of the World -- Why Not Revenge? -- World Gone Wrong -- Remembering Rebecca -- White-Haired Bum -- The Suicide's Life -- The Cult of the Good-Looking Corpse -- McNamara -- Abraham Lincoln's Cool Fire -- He Never Had It Made -- What We Signed Up For -- The Guerrillas in Our Midst -- A Pornography of Guns -- Limbaugh Nation -- TV: The Real World -- An End to Prohibition -- Big Men and Bell Curves -- Having MTV -- What Were the Police Doing in the Park? -- The Yankee Woman -- Toward a Tyranny of the Dull Normal.".
- catalog title "The shortstop's son : essays and journalism / Philip Martin.".
- catalog type "text".