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050 00 $aPN4874.M4826$bA25 1997
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100 1 $aMartin, Philip,$d1958-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91028475
245 14 $aThe shortstop's son :$bessays and journalism /$cPhilip Martin.
260 $aFayetteville :$bUniversity of Arkansas Press,$c1997.
300 $axvi, 191 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aMany of the essays originally appeared in the Arkansas Democrat gazette.
505 00 $tA Murder Story --$tChristmas in NYC --$tIn Paris --$tClick Song: Some Blues for Dr. King --$tForgiving Elvis --$tAssassination Thing --$tBlood Requites --$tGod and Man in the Land of Nod --$tWaiting for the End of the World --$tWhy Not Revenge? --$tWorld Gone Wrong --$tRemembering Rebecca --$tWhite-Haired Bum --$tThe Suicide's Life --$tThe Cult of the Good-Looking Corpse --$tMcNamara --$tAbraham Lincoln's Cool Fire --$tHe Never Had It Made --$tWhat We Signed Up For --$tThe Guerrillas in Our Midst --$tA Pornography of Guns --$tLimbaugh Nation --$tTV: The Real World --$tAn End to Prohibition --$tBig Men and Bell Curves --$tHaving MTV --$tWhat Were the Police Doing in the Park? --$tThe Yankee Woman --$tToward a Tyranny of the Dull Normal --$tA Serious Lack of Seriousness --$tHalloween --$tHating the Dodgers --$tSpook Story --$tThe Bulletproof Myth of Bonnie and Clyde --$tNew Orleans --$tApproximately Huddie Ledbetter --$tThe Untidy Grave of Blind Lemon Jefferson --$tElvis Lives --$tCeDell Davis --
505 80 $tMr. Petty's Case --$tAlways Patsy Cline --$tDylan's Children (and Everybody's) --$tThe Shortstop's Son.
520 $aThrough 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.
520 8 $aHe 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.
520 8 $aIn 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.
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