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04202aam a2200553Ii 4500 001 3A2103AC789511EA8FAC8C5897128E48 003 SILO 005 20200407010129 008 200310s2020 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019045871 020 $a 1541672666 020 $a 9781541672666 040 $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ma 050 00 $a F73.25 $b .R63 2020 082 00 $a 974.4/6104 $2 23 100 1 $a Roberts, Randy, $d 1951- $e author. 245 10 $a War fever : $b Boston, baseball, and America in the shadow of the Great War / $c Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith. 246 30 $a Boston, baseball, and America in the shadow of the Great War. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Basic Books, $c 2020. 300 $a xix, 344 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-329) and index. 520 $a "In 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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $z Boston. $z Boston. 651 0 $a Boston (Mass.) $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $x Social aspects $z United States. 600 10 $a Muck, Karl. 600 10 $a Ruth, Babe, $d 1895-1948. 600 10 $a Whittlesey, Charles White, $d 1884-1921. 650 0 $a Xenophobia $z Boston $z Boston $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Baseball players $z Boston $z Boston $v Biography. 650 0 $a Germans $z Boston $z Boston $v Biography. 610 10 $a United States. $b Division, 77th $b Division, 77th $x History. 651 0 $a Boston (Mass.) $v Biography. 700 1 $a Smith, John Matthew, $e author. 941 $a 11 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611021532.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231219011425.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909060542.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20211201010705.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722062558.0 952 $l D8PD522 $d 20210428011530.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20201203010559.0 952 $l EFPB605 $d 20201105170256.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200702013912.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200605010121.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20200407010414.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3A2103AC789511EA8FAC8C5897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search