Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games - Hardcover

Giamatti, A. Bartlett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1608192245 ISBN 13: 9781608192243

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2011

Synopsis

A philosophical musing on sports and play, this wholly inspiring and utterly charming reissue of Bart Giamatti's long-out-of-print final book, Take Time for Paradise, puts baseball in the context of American life and leisure. Giamatti begins with the conviction that our use of free time tells us something about who we are. He explores the concepts of leisure, American-style. And in baseball, the quintessential American game, he finds its ultimate expression. "Sports and leisure are our reiteration of the hunger for paradise- for freedom untrammeled." Filled with pithy truths about such resonant subjects as ritual, self-betterment, faith, home, and community, Take Time for Paradise gives us much more than just baseball. These final, eloquent thoughts of "the philosopher king of baseball" (Seattle Weekly) are a joyful, reverent celebration of the sport Giamatti loved and the country that created it.

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About the Authors

A. Bartlett Giamatti served as commissioner of Major League Baseball from April 1, 1989, until his death on September 1, 1989. He had previously been the president ofthe National League, starting in 1986. He was a scholar of the English Renaissance at Yale University, a beloved professor, and later became its youngest president.

A. Bartlett Giamatti was a scholar of English Renaissance literature at Yale University, a beloved professor, and, later, the university's youngest president. In 1986, he became president of the National League. He was appointed commissioner of Major League Baseball on April 1,1989, serving until his death five months later.
Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Andrew Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill.
Marcus Giamatti, a graduate of Bowdoin College and the Yale School of Drama, is an actor, musician, and writer currently living in Los Angeles with his wife, Bree, and their daughter, Ophelia. He is the eldest of Bart Giamatti's three children and an avid, lifelong fan of the Boston Red Sox.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1608192245
• ISBN 13: 9781608192243
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 106