To examine the social and cultural significance of the athlete hero in American literature, Robert J. Higgs turns to the works of Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Wil
From the worship of Michael Jordan to the downfall of O.J. Simpson, it has become clear that sports and sports heroes have assumed a role in American society far out of proportion to their traditional
An anthology of fiction, poetry, history, literary criticism and folklore about the mountainous region and the influences on it. The selections in volume 2 are organized around themes such as family a
Edited by Robert J. Higgs, Ambrose N. Manning, and Jim Wayne MillerThese two volumes constitute the most comprehensive anthology of writings on Appalachia ever assembled. Representing the work of appr
