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War Fever - Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War (Hardcover)
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War Fever - Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War (Hardcover)
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n War Fever, celebrated sports historians Randy Roberts and Johnny
Smith explore the monumental changes taking place in Boston during
the Great War through the stories of three men: Karl Muck, the
German conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Charles
Whittlesey, a Harvard Law Student who was called to service and
became an unlikely leader; and perhaps the most famous baseball
player of all time, the Red Sox's Babe Ruth. Each was cast into the
turmoil of the war, and each emerged as a public figure of one sort
or another: one a villain, one a hero, one an athlete. Throughout
the war, Bostonians lived on high alert; fearing an attack on the
city's harbor, mines were anchored in the bay and a wire net
stretched across the channels to prevent German submarines from
encroaching. In an ethnically diverse city, fraught with tension
between interventionists and pacifists, the war unleashed
intolerance, hostility, and xenophobia. Karl Muck, after allegedly
refusing to perform the "Star-Spangled Banner" at a symphony
concert, was detained by federal agents and accused of espionage.
His arrest soon became a national scandal as he was labeled a
"dangerous enemy alien" and sent to an internment camp in
Tennessee. Across the Atlantic, on the Western Front, Charles
Whittlesey won overnight fame when he refused to surrender the
makeshift battalion he commanded to the Germans. Dubbed by
newspapers as "the Lost Battalion," Whittlesey and his men
symbolized their country's iron resolve in one of the war's
bloodiest battles. And for George Herman Ruth, perhaps the most
famous German-American at the time, the war was transformative,
paving the way for his metamorphosis from the most dominant
left-handed pitcher in the game to the sport's greatest slugger.
Together, the stories of these three men reveal how a city and a
nation confronted the havoc of a new world order, the struggle to
endure the war, and all its unforeseen consequences. At once a
gripping narrative of American culture in upheaval and a sweeping
account of the conflict, War Fever is narrative history at its
best.
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