Smith and Roberts' book has become particularly relevant as the professional sports world confronts the COVID-19 pandemic, and reviewer J. Kemper Campbell looks to the volume both as a record of a time past and a display of how a country can react in the face of multiple crises.
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]]>Individuals who feel our country will be unable to conquer both the coronavirus and the economic crisis it has engendered should take heart from the tumultuous year which occurred over a century ago. The book demonstrates that our fellow citizens are capable of both walking and chewing gum at the same time and could probably learn to simultaneously crochet a doily if necessary.
By emphasizing the personalities of the book’s three protagonists, the authors have succeeded in adding a human element to their compelling narrative. Their book should make interested readers’ time pass pleasantly as our own pandemic grinds to its inevitable conclusion.