Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character
Jack Hitt,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Crown Publishing Group on 05-15-2012
Jack Hitt,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Crown Publishing Group on 05-15-2012
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780307393753 (0307393755)
Publish date: May 15th 2012
Publisher: Crown
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
In this entertaining and wide ranging book journalist Jack Hitt explores what it is to be an amateur and why it has been a quintessentially American pursuit since the time of Ben Franklin, a man Hitt sees as a sort of founding father of amateurism. The word amateur came into English from the French ...