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This classic confrontation between champions of liberty and defenders of order was long considered the most significant event in the first quarter-century of the new nation. Thomas P. Slaughter recaptures the historical drama and significance of this violent episode in which frontier West and cosmopolitan East battled over the meaning of the American Revolution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book not only offers the broadest and most comprehensive account of the Whiskey Rebellion ever written, taking into account the political, social and intellectual contexts of the time, but also challenges conventional understandings of the Revolutionary era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThomas P. 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The pitcher known to one and all as \"Matty\" or \"Big Six\" was as beloved for the strength of character he brought to the national pastime, as for his stunning 373 career victories. \"I do not expect to see his like again,\" said his best friend and former manager, John McGraw. \"But I do know that the example he set and the imprint he left on the sport that he loved and honored will remain long after I am gone.\"\u003cbr\u003e In \u003cem\u003eMatty\u003c\/em\u003e, Ray Robinson tells the story of a man who became America's first authentic sports hero. Until Mathewson, Robinson reveals, Americans loved baseball, but looked down on ballplayers and other athletes as hard-drinking, skirt-chasing ne'er-do-wells. Deprived of real-life role models, millions of readers followed the serialized exploits of Frank Merriwell, a fictional hero who excelled at sports from baseball to billiards and never drank, smoke, or swore. Robinson shows how an eager public greeted Mathewson as a flesh-and-blood version of Merriwell from his first year at Bucknell University, where he shone as star pitcher, premier field-goal kicker, and class president. Lured into the big leagues before he could graduate, the tall, handsome pitcher soon won over men, women and children with his sense of fair play and his arsenal of blazing fastballs, sweeping curves, and infamously deceptive fadeaway pitches. Robinson skillfully details the highlights of Mathewson's career, including his showdowns against the great batters of his day and his encounters with the young Brooklyn, Chicago, Pittsburgh and St. Louis teams. Here are the six remarkable days in October, 1905 when Mathewson became the only pitcher ever to hurl three straight shutouts in a World Series, and the afternoon at West Point when he won $50 in a bet that he could throw 20 of his best pitches to exactly the same spot. Robinson does not underplay Mathewson's occasional failings, but the most surprising aspect of this fascinating portrait is just how close America's first Hall of Fame pitcher came to living up to his image.\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on rare interviews, press clips, and long overlooked eyewitness accounts, \u003cem\u003eMatty\u003c\/em\u003e brings baseball's golden age to life--not only the great teams and the early superstars, but the long train trips between games, with cramped berths and no air conditioning; the small town ballplayers let loose amidst big city vice; and the two-bit gambling that eventually led to the infamous Black Sox Scandal of the 1919 Series (a scandal that might have escaped detection if the sportswriters in the press box with Mathewson had not been able to rely on his experienced eye for clues to how ballplayers might throw games). 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Historians have long seen Burgoyne's defeat as a turning point in the American Revolution because it convinced France to join the war on the side of the colonies, thus ensuring American victory. But that traditional view of Saratoga overlooks the complexity of the situation on the ground. Setting the battle in its social and political context, Theodore Corbett examines Saratoga and its aftermath as part of ongoing conflicts among the settlers of the Hudson and Champlain valleys of New York, Canada, and Vermont. This long, more local view reveals that the American victory actually resolved very little.\u003cbr\u003eIn transcending traditional military history, Corbett examines the roles not only of enlisted Patriot and Redcoat soldiers but also of landowners, tenant farmers, townspeople, American Indians, Loyalists, and African Americans. He begins the story in the 1760s, when the first large influx of white settlers arrived in the New York and New England backcountry. Ethnic and religious strife marked relations among the colonists from the outset. Conflicting claims issued by New York and New Hampshire to the area that eventually became Vermont turned the skirmishes into a veritable civil war.\u003cbr\u003eThese pre-Revolution conflicts--which determined allegiances during the Revolution--were not affected by the military outcome of the Battle of Saratoga. After Burgoyne's defeat, the British retained control of the upper Hudson-Champlain valley and mobilized Loyalists and Native allies to continue successful raids there even after the Revolution. The civil strife among the colonists continued into the 1780s, as the American victory gave way to violent strife amounting to class warfare. Corbett ends his story with conflicts over debt in Vermont, New Hampshire, and finally Massachusetts, where the sack of Stockbridge--part of Shays's Rebellion in 1787--was the last of the civil disruptions that had roiled the landscape for the previous twenty years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Turning Point \u003c\/i\u003ecomplicates and enriches our understanding of the difficult birth of the United States as a nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCorbett, Theodore:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eTheodore Corbett\u003c\/b\u003e, a public historian who has taught American and British history, is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Clash of Cultures on the Warpath of Nations: The Colonial Wars in the Hudson-Champlain Valley \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary New Castle: The Struggle for Independence\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328523702546,"sku":"9780806146614","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7c1304d3-3e2d-4d58-a2b7-01fcc70b5ab0.jpg?v=1727743356"},{"product_id":"sing-me-back-home-southern-roots-and-country-musicvolume-1-9780806155869","title":"Sing Me Back Home: Southern Roots and Country Musicvolume 1","description":"\u003cbr\u003e For over fifty years, Bill C. Malone has researched and written about the history of country music. Today he is celebrated as the foremost authority on this distinctly American genre. This new collection brings together his significant article-length work from a variety of sources, including essays, book chapters, and record liner notes. \u003ci\u003eSing Me Back Home\u003c\/i\u003e distills a lifetime of thinking about country and southern roots music. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Malone offers the heartfelt story of his own working-class upbringing in rural East Texas, recounting how in 1939 his family's first radio, a battery-powered Philco, introduced him to hillbilly music and how, years later, he went on to become a scholar in the field before the field formally existed. Drawing on a hundred years of southern roots music history, Malone assesses the contributions of artists such as William S. Hays, Albert Brumley, Joe Thompson, Jimmie Rodgers, Johnny Gimble, and Elvis Presley. He also explores the intricate relationships between black and white music styles, gospel and secular traditions, and pop, folk, and country music. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Author of many books, Malone is best known for his pioneering volume \u003ci\u003eCounty Music, U.S.A.\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1968. It ranks as the first comprehensive history of American country music and remains a standard reference. This compilation of Malone's shorter--and more personal--essays is the perfect complement to his earlier writing and a compelling introduction to the life's work of America's most respected country music historian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMalone, Bill C.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eBill C. Malone \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor Emeritus of History at Tulane University. He is the author of numerous books on country music history. 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