This is a used book in very good condition, meaning that it shows only minor signs of wear and has no significant damage. Morgan has given life to a tale as mythic and fraught as the South itself - a moral epic for our time. A spiralling tale of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in shadow by the enduring legacy of slavery. Entangled by fear, prejudice, and lust, the three tether their personal dreams of glory to the speed and grace of Hellsmouth. But when Allmon Shaughnessy, an ambitious young black man, comes to work on their farm after a stint in prison, the violence of the Forges' history and the exigencies of appetite are brought starkly into view. Henry Forge has partnered with his daughter, Henrietta, in an endeavour of raw obsession: to breed the next superhorse. Listen to me, I created this world with my own two hands, and I am going to leave it all to you.' Hellsmouth, an indomitable thoroughbred filly, runs for the glory of the Forge family, one of Kentucky's oldest and most powerful dynasties. A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR An American myth and a contemporary portrait of the scars of the past that run through a family, and of our desperate need to escape our history, to subsume it with pleasure - or to rise above it with glory.
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I recommend this book to everyone, even if you hate baseball or sports altogether. I was also able to learn some things about baseball. Like helping “Tuba Dave” Jablonski lose weight so he can run faster, helping the catcher get over his fear of the ball, and figuring out the mystery of shortstop Bobby Ray Devereaux. Almost all of the chapters focused on one member of the team and the efforts to try to help the character become a better baseball player. One major thing that I liked about this book was how it was arranged. In the end, all of their effort pays off and the Feather-Soft Tigers become the League Champions. But as the season progresses, Kristy helps solve the team’s problems one step at a time, and she always somehow manages to drag Corey along with her. A genius scientist coach who is clueless about baseball, an annoying girl named Kristy, who is from New York and is the coach’s granddaughter, a pitcher who cannot throw the ball, among other glaring problems with the various other members on the team. The story is about Corey Johnson, a boy whose Little League baseball team, The Feather-Soft Tigers (given that name because of their toilet paper company sponsor), has a bunch of problems. I decided to read it again and it was still as good as I remember. I first read this book last summer, and I really liked it. This book explores the important implications of this shift in economic thinking from a theological perspective. In Christianity in Europe and America, Protestants hold the majority of managerial, skilled labor, and capital investment positions, while Catholics tend to occupy the lower strata. Though self-interest has enjoyed several decades as the unquestioned ruling principle of American economics, other-interest is steadily coming back into view, not only among Christian ethicists, but among economists as well. Weber posits that in every religion with multiple denominations, a certain amount of social stratification occurs between them. Through sustained interaction with such unlikely dialogue partners as Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, Deirdre McCloskey, and Muhammad Yunus, this book shows that the virtues of self-denial, neighbor love, and sympathy have been quite at home in the capitalism of the past, and can be again. This book develops an approach to Christian economic ethics that celebrates God's gift of human freedom, while at the same time acknowledging necessary, and indeed vital, limitations in the context of material and social life. Blanchard argues that the theological thought of John Calvin and the Protestant movement as a whole has much to say that challenges the current incarnation of the capitalist order. Against this common consensus, Kathryn D. Since the publication of Max Weber's classic, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, it has long been assumed that a distinctly Protestant ethos has shaped the current global economic order.
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Unraveling memories alongside family documents and photographs, Animal Quintet takesa raw look at racial tensions and relations in a region struggling to change while providing a disquieting picture of a childhood accessible only through accounts of the non-human, ranging from famed Southern war horses led by CivilWar generals and doomed Spanish fighting bulls to the lowly possum hunted by generations of Southerners. Colin Dayan meditates on the connection between her personal and family history and her relationship with animals in this lyrical memoir about her upbringing in the South. But just because I wasn’t a fan of the thriller she wrote, doesn’t mean that I won’t enjoy a witchy romance for Halloween. Erin Sterling is a pen name for Rachel Hawkins who wrote The Wife Upstairs-which I wasn’t a fan of. I was dying of laughter just picturing it. So what exactly attracted to me to this book? 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