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Donald Dewey
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This book follows the life of James Madison, our 4th president, who
at the tender age of twenty-five was thrust into significant
politics as an elected member of the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Even in his first venture into statesmanship, Madison took notes on
constitutional deliberations, a practice that he would continue in
the Federal Convention that proposed the United States Constitution
and throughout much of his legislative career whether in
Philadelphia, New York City, or Williamsburg, Virginia. Just as
most of our knowledge of the framing of the U.S. Constitution is
provided by Madison's painstaking notes of the Constitutional
Convention of 1787, much of our knowledge of George Mason's many
contributions to the Virginia Constitution of 1776 are also known
through Madison's efforts.
This book follows the life of James Madison, our 4th president, who
at the tender age of twenty-five was thrust into significant
politics as an elected member of the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Even in his first venture into statesmanship. Madison took notes on
constitutional deliberations, a practice that he would continue in
the Federal Convention that proposed the United States Constitution
and throughout much of his legislative career whether in
Philadelphia, New York City, or Williamsburg, Virginia. Just as
most of our knowledge of the framing of the U.S. Constitution is
provided by Madison's painstaking notes of the Constitutional
Convention of 1787, much of our knowledge of George Mason's many
contributions to the Virginia Constitution of 1776 are also known
through Madison's efforts. His major personal contribution to that
seminal state constitution is a brief but key phrase in the
Virginia Declaration of Rights that would in many respects become a
pattern for the Bill of Rights that Madison was later largely
responsible for addition to the United States Constitution. His
addition of a simple clause converted Mason's proposed language
from religious toleration, where an official church would permit
citizens to attend other churches, to religious freedom with its
clear implication that it was one of the Rights of Man that were so
important to that revolutionary generation. Throughout his career
he remained committed to religious freedom and he is still
considered one of its greatest contributors. During the brief time
between his terms in Congress he would prevail in battles against
the re-establishment of the Episcopal Church in Virginia and would
win legislative approval for the Statute for Religious Freedom that
Jefferson wrote and in which he took enormous pride, but which
required the legislative management of James Madison to become law.
Madison is best and justifiably known as "Father of the
Constitution" because of his heroic role in bringing together the
Federal Convention in 1787, influencing its outcomes through the
Virginia Plan, maintaining records of the debates, winning its
ratification in the largest state and influencing several other
states.
As America lurched into the twentieth century, its national pastime
was afflicted with the same moral malaise that was enveloping the
rest of the nation. Players regularly bet on games, games were
routinely fixed, and league politics were as dirty as the base
paths. Against this backdrop, Hal Chase emerged as one of the
game's greatest players and also as one of its most scandalous
characters. With charisma and bravado that earned him the nickname
The Prince, Chase charmed his way across America, spinning lies in
the afternoon, dealing high-stakes poker at night, and gambling
with beautiful women until dawn. Most notoriously of all, he
undermined his stature as the era's greatest first baseman by
conniving with gamblers to fix games and draw teammates into his
diamond conspiracies. But as Donald Dewey and Nicholas Acocella
reveal in their groundbreaking biography, The Black Prince of
Baseball, Chase was also a scapegoat for baseball notables with
hands even dirtier than his. These included league officials who
ignored facts in an attempt to pin the 1919 Black Sox scandal on
him and-a previously unknown twist-the fabled John McGraw, who
perjured himself on a witness stand against the first baseman.
Although Chase, contrary to popular belief, was never banned from
the major leagues, meticulous research by the authors implicates
him in other shady enterprises as well, not least an attempt to
blackmail revivalist Aimee Semple McPherson. As The Black Prince of
Baseball makes clear, in his protean talents and larcenies, Hal
Chase personified all the excesses of Ragtime.
For many of his theater contemporaries, Lee J. Cobb (1911-1976) was
the greatest actor of his generation. In Hollywood he became the
definitive embodiment of gangsters, psychiatrists, and roaring
lunatics. From 1939 until his death, Cobb contributed riveting
performances to a number of films, including Boomerang, On the
Waterfront, The Brothers Karamazov, 12 Angry Men, and The Exorcist.
But for all of his conspicuous achievements in motion pictures,
Cobb's name is most identified with the character Willy Loman in
the original stage production of Arthur Miller's Death of a
Salesman (1949). Directed by Elia Kazan, Cobb's Broadway
performance proved to be a benchmark for American theater. In Lee
J. Cobb: Characters of an Actor, Donald Dewey looks at the life and
career of this versatile performer. From his Lower East Side roots
in New York City-where he was born Leo Jacob-to multiple accolades
on stage and the big and small screens, Cobb's life proved to be a
tumultuous rollercoaster of highs and lows. As a leading man of the
theater, he gave a number of compelling performances in such plays
as Golden Boy and King Lear. For the Hollywood studios, Cobb fit
the description of the "character actor." No one better epitomized
the performer who suddenly appears on the screen and immediately
grabs the audience's attention. During his forty-five-year career,
there wasn't a significant star-from Humphrey Bogart and James
Stewart to Paul Newman and Clint Eastwood-with whom he didn't work.
Cobb was also followed by controversy: he appeared before the House
Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s and was a witness to
a movie-set murder case in the 1970s. Through it all, he never lost
his taste for fast cars and gin rummy. A bear of a man with a voice
that equally accommodated growls and sibilant sympathies, Cobb was
undeniably an actor to be reckoned with. In this fascinating book,
Dewey captures all of the drama that surrounded Cobb, both on
screen and off.
This book examines economic analysis relevant to monopoly policy
and traces the growth of monopoly policy in the U.S. from its
common-law origins to the present as it relates to cartels, market
tactics, oligopoly, and labor unions.
Without Ray Arcel (1899-1994), the world of boxing during the 20th
century would have been markedly different. Indeed, the credibility
professional boxing as a sport would have been greatly lessened.
Arcel's prominence is all the more interesting because he made his
mark not as a fighter, promoter, or manager, but as a trainer. From
Benny Leonard to Roberto Duran and Larry Holmes, Arcel stood in the
corner for champions of every weight division that existed in his
lifetime, a record that remains unprecedented. This biography
chronicles Arcel's life inside the ring, and out--where he remained
a highly secretive man and maintained ambiguous relationships with
some of the chief mob figures of his day. Through a wealth of
information from Arcel's unpublished memoir, this work offers an
extraordinary portrait of one of boxing's most influential and
enigmatic figures.
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