Man in the Crowd: A Fan's Notes on Four Generations of New York Baseball - Hardcover

Cohen, Stanley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1616086912 ISBN 13: 9781616086916

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

For Stanley Cohen, baseball is the prism through which he views the events of the last seventy years. In The Man in the Crowd, Cohen chronicles America’s changing mood and lifestyle from the years of World War II through the silent generation of the fifties, the revolutionary turmoil of the sixties through the social decay of the seventies, the excess of the eighties through the technological transformation of the nineties, up through the sobering uncertainty of the post- 9/11 present day. His narrative spans four generations as he recounts in sparkling prose how, for his immigrant father, sports was a means of assimilation into life in the New World; the warmth of watching his son and, later, his grandson both fall heir to his devotion; and how the game of baseball has provided his life with its truest sense of continuity.

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About the Author

Stanley Cohen is a veteran award-winning newspaper and magazine journalist. He has worked as an editor, writer, and reporter for newspapers, magazines, and an international news service for more than fifty years and has also taught writing, journalism, and philosophy at Hunter College. He is the author of ten books, including the acclaimed The Game They Played. He lives in Tomkins Cove, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1616086912
• ISBN 13: 9781616086916
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288