Baseball and rhetorics of purity : the national pastime and American identity during the war on terror /

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Baseball has long been considered America's "national pastime," touted variously as a healthy diversion, a symbol of national unity, and a model of democratic inclusion. But, according to Michael Butterworth, such favorable rhetoric belies baseball's complicity in the rhetorical...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Butterworth, Michael L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2010.
Series:Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
Subjects:
2001-2009
Baseball > Social aspects > United States.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
Base-ball > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Guerre contre le terrorisme, 2001-2009.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Sociology of Sports.
Baseball > Social aspects.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Rhetoric and the American game
  • Ritual in the "church of baseball" : performing patriotism at the ballpark
  • "Baseball as America" : nostalgia and public memory through the national pastime
  • Purifying the body politic : steroids and the rhetorical cleansing of baseball
  • Headed for home : bringing baseball back to the nation's capital
  • Making the world safe for baseball : American mission and the World Baseball Classic
  • Conclusion: Reconstituting the national pastime.

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