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ROBERT ELIAS, Author of EMPIRE STRIKES OUT

Start: Thu, 08/19/2010 - 7:00pm

End: Thu, 08/19/2010 - 8:00pm

Joing us as Robert Elias slides into Green Apple Books to celebrate his newly released investigation into the history of baseball, The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad.

From the Civil War to George W. Bush and the Iraq War, Elias has tracked baseball's role in developing the American empire, first at home and then beyond our shores. Elias assesses the effects of this relationship both on our foreign policies and on the sport itself. Driven by compelling stories, unusual events, and unique individuals, the seamless integration of original research and compelling analysis makes this a baseball book that's about more than just sports.

Come meet Robert Elias, talk a little baseball, and pick up a signed copy of The Empire Strikes Out, a must have for lovers of the great--and complex-- American game.

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Green Apple Books
506 Clement St
San Francisco, California 94118-2324

The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad (Hardcover)

By Robert Elias

$27.95

ISBN-13: 9781595581952
Availability: On Our Shelves (as of this morning)
Published: New Press, The, 02/01/2010

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Book of the Month

Each month, we present a new book that we enthusiastically recommend. Really enthusiastically recommend. This month's choice is again endorsed by multiple Green Applers. Buy it now and thank us later. Here's the "shelf-talker", courtesy of Sparks and AeRi:

Following on the heels of Remainder (2007), a book Zadie Smith called "one of the greatest English novels of the last ten years," comes Tom McCarthy's dazzlingly complex and riveting novel, C. Set at the turn of the 20th century, C - a letter signifying a number of things, from communications to coincidence to cocaine, from ciphers to Cairo to crackpots - tells the story of Serge Carrefax (another contributing "C") as he navigates through the onset of modernity, moving from an idyllic childhood in the British countryside to a series of tumultuous and formative events (he's an airman in WW1, a POW, a debaucherous student in post-war London, a spy in Egypt...). As much an adventure story as a novel of ideas, C is unlike anything you will read this year -- which is why we're so excited to select it as our "Book of the Month."

GOAT: Greatest of All Time -- a Tribute to Muhammad Ali

PRE ORDER NOW!

Finally, TASCHEN's collectible tribute to Muhammad Ali is going to be available for only $150.00. The book will be released in late August, but we're accepting presale orders leading up to its publication. Don't miss your chance to pick up this gorgeous commemeration of Ali at a downright steal of a price.

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