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 | #1628587 in Books |  University Press of Mississippi |  2001-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.20 x.81 x6.38l,1.17 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

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||7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Fragments of Everything|By John K. Crane|I have to diagree with the other two reviewers. Like them, I bought it because I liked the author's books on the 1918 Flu and the 1927 Flood. This book is a mess, conceived of a way to get random pieces of previously published essays into a book with a common theme. Barry fails badly. Portraits of generally obscure athletes, very bri|From Library Journal|In a somewhat different take on politics, Barry (The Ambition and the Power) interweaves the rise and fall of two powerful House leaders with true stories from the sports world. The contrast allows Barry, a former college football coach,

The pursuit and wielding of power may be America's most intoxicating and sometimes revolting pastime. John M. Barry, award-winning author of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (1997), purveys American uses and abuses of might in the media, in Washington, in Olympians, and in college football.

With Power Plays: Politics, Football, and Other Blood Sports Barry draws together essays that examine the causes and eff...

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