Saying it's so a cultural history of the Black Sox scandal

Synopsis

"Daniel A. Nathan's wide-ranging, interdisciplinary cultural history is less concerned with the details of the scandal than with how it has been represented and remembered by journalists, historians, novelists, filmmakers, and baseball fans. Offering insights into what different cultural narratives reveal about their creators and the eras in which they were produced, Saying It's So is a complex study of cultural values, memory, and the ways people make meaning." "Addressing the relationship between cultural narratives and social reality, Nathan considers the media's coverage of the scandal - from front-page attention to scathing commentaries and cartoons - when the story broke in 1920 and in the following years. He also examines how oral tradition reiterated the scandal before new narratives began to appear at midcentury."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved