War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War

by John Smith, Johnny Smith, Randy W. Roberts

Book Overview

A "richly detailed" portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston (Michael S. Neiberg): baseball star Babe Ruth, symphony conductor Karl Muck, and Harvard Law student Charles Whittlesey.
In the fall of 1918, a fever gripped Boston. The streets emptied as paranoia about the deadly Spanish flu spread. Newspapermen and vigilante investigators aggressively sought to discredit anyone who looked or sounded German...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541672666
• ISBN13: 9781541672666
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.9" x 9.4"