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Tom Hoffarth, author of Perfect Eloquence, was on LA CBS Sports Corner!
Reviews
Review in Ancillary Review of Books:
“In Westerns: A Women’s History, Victoria Lamont spotlights women within the Western genre: fictional protagonists and their flesh-and-blood authors. Lamont dismantles the prevailing understanding of the ‘popular western as masculine backlash’ and shows how these women writers embedded pro-suffrage, pro-labor, anti-marriage, and even anti-colonial critiques within cowboy stories.”
Review in H-Environment:
“The only thing stronger than Jim Minick’s research on the 1955 Udall, Kansas, tornado is his narrative ability to make readers sometimes forget that this is an account of a real event. In an author’s note at the start of Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas, Minick identifies the book as a ‘work of creative nonfiction,’ which may give some pause, but the foundation in survivor interviews and archival research comes through clearly and eliminates any concern (p. xi).”
Review in The Journal of American History:
“The Imperial Gridiron is a fluid and accessible read, a teaching tool sure to captivate students of American history and culture, and a valuable credit to the field.”
Review in International Journal for Sports and Religion:
“The Imperial Gridiron gives nuance to conventional understandings of muscular Christianity, particularly as it relates to Pratt’s initial aims for the school. Finally, we are fortunate that the exceptional and praiseworthy effort was made to bring this book to print, which will no doubt become a standard account in the history of football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.”
Author Interviews
Interview on Good Seats Still Available
Interview on Fox19 Now’s “Morning Xtra”
Interview on All About Books
Interview on the Baseball & BBQ podcast
UNP blog 