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In this comprehensive and insightful study, Christian K. Messenger contends that American writers have always created characters at play in the sure knowledge t
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Contemporary American Fiction
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Sport
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Steven Overman explores the concordant values of the Protestant ethic, capitalism, and sport by applying German scholar Max Weber's seminal thesis. Weber demons