American Umpire

American Umpire
ISBN-10
0674073819
ISBN-13
9780674073814
Category
History
Pages
440
Language
English
Published
2013-03-04
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Elizabeth COBBS HOFFMAN

Description

Commentators call the United States an empire: occasionally a benign empire, sometimes an empire in denial, often a destructive empire. In American Umpire Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman asserts instead that America has performed the role of umpire since 1776, compelling adherence to rules that gradually earned broad approval, and violating them as well.

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