Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes - John Rosengren - Libros - Penguin Putnam Inc - 9780451416025 - 4 de marzo de 2014
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Baseball during the Great Depression of the 1930s galvanized communities and provided a struggling country with heroes. Jewish player Hank Greenberg gave the people of Detroit—and America—a reason to be proud.

But America was facing more than economic hardship. Hitler?s agenda heightened the persecution of Jews abroad while anti-Semitism intensified political and social tensions in the U. S. The six-foot-four-inch Greenberg, the nation?s most prominent Jew, became not only an iconic ball player, but also an important and sometimes controversial symbol of Jewish identity and the American immigrant experience.

Throughout his twelve-year baseball career and four years of military service, he heard cheers wherever he went along with anti-Semitic taunts. The abuse drove him to legendary feats that put him in the company of the greatest sluggers of the day, including Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, and Lou Gehrig. Hank?s iconic status made his personal dilemmas with religion versus team and ambition versus duty national debates.
 
Hank Greenberg is an intimate account of his life—a story of integrity and triumph over adversity and a portrait of one of the greatest baseball players and most important Jews of the twentieth century.

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416 pages

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Publicado 4 de marzo de 2014
ISBN13 9780451416025
Editores Penguin Putnam Inc
Páginas 416
Dimensiones 152 × 227 × 22 mm   ·   390 g
Lengua Inglés  

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