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Language: en
Pages: 267
Authors: John Sexton
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-07 - Publisher: Penguin

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The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality. For more than a decade
Baseball as a Road to God
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: John Sexton
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-04 - Publisher: Avery

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Applying to the secular activity of baseball a form of inquiry usually reserved for the study of religion, Sexton explores common ground between the game and wh
Take Time for Paradise
Language: en
Pages: 125
Authors: A. Bartlett Giamatti
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-15 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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A philosophical musing on sports and play, this wholly inspiring and utterly charming reissue of Bart Giamatti's long-out-of-print final book, Take Time for Par
The Lords of the Realm
Language: en
Pages: 641
Authors: John Helyar
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-27 - Publisher: Ballantine Books

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"The ultimate chronicle of the games behind the game."—The New York Times Book Review Baseball has always inspired rhapsodic elegies on the glory of man and g
Standing for Reason
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: John Sexton
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-16 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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A powerful case for the importance of universities as an antidote to the “secular dogmatism” that increasingly infects political discourse John Sexton argue