A More Dangerous Game: How a Young Sportswriter Met Patty Hearst and Landed in Federal Prison
Autor Jay Weineren Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 ian 2027
Jay Weiner was an aspiring teenage sportswriter when he met Jack Scott, the charismatic, activist journalist who would become his mentor, immersing him in the political and social issues roiling sports—and so much else—in the late 1960s and 1970s. Weiner became a zealous student of Scott, joining a new tradition of sports journalism that interrogated questions of race, power, and politics alongside the games themselves. But his blind devotion took a treacherous turn when Scott took Weiner, as a surprise for his twentieth birthday, to a secluded Pennsylvania farmhouse where heiress-turned-FBI-most-wanted Patty Hearst was hiding out with her Symbionese Liberation Army kidnappers-turned-comrades.
A More Dangerous Game is Weiner’s story of coming of age in a shocking fashion. A wild mosaic of sports, journalism, betrayal, justice, courage, and redemption, his memoir charts the meeting of sports and the radical left in the 1970s, with Weiner unwittingly caught in the middle and left behind by his mentor. In the engaged, edgy style of a seasoned sportswriter, Weiner describes the fallout after that fateful encounter with the country’s most wanted fugitives: three years of federal subpoenas, impossible decisions, and, ultimately, four months in prison for refusing to testify before a grand jury.
With exhaustive background reporting, Weiner fits together the seemingly disparate pieces of his unlikely journey from young sportswriter to frightened FBI target to emboldened Federal Prisoner #01150-134. From its examination of the life and work of Jack Scott to its surprising angle on the well-chronicled saga of Patty Hearst, A More Dangerous Game is the engrossing story of a time when examining sports as a mirror of society put a writer on the cutting edge of one of the most notorious stories of a generation.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781517920647
ISBN-10: 1517920647
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 9 black and white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Minnesota Press
Colecția Univ Of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10: 1517920647
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 9 black and white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Minnesota Press
Colecția Univ Of Minnesota Press
Notă biografică
Jay Weiner is author of Stadium Games: Fifty Years of Big League Greed and Bush League Boondoggles; This Is Not Florida: How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Senate Recount; and, with Hy Berman, Professor Berman: The Last Lecture of Minnesota’s Greatest Public Historian, all published by the University of Minnesota Press. He lives and writes in St. Paul.
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Contents
Introduction: Fifty Years Ago, Today
1. Sports and Me
2. I Discover Jack Scott
3. Spiro Agnew, the Bomber, and Oberlin College
4. The Athletic Revolution Fizzles
5. Meeting Patty: “You Shouldn’t Have Come Here”
6. Armed and Dangerous?
7. Scared and Saying Stupid Things in the Monster’s Belly
8. From Informant to Resister
9. Tumbling Down the Stairs like a Rolling Stone
10. The Scotts Lash Out and We Split Up
11. In Contempt and Off to Prison
12. Feeling Forgotten
13. Finally, a Newspaper Job
14. Jack’s Wake
15. Finding Bill Walton and Cross-Examining My Judge
Epilogue: Two Unanswered Questions
Introduction: Fifty Years Ago, Today
1. Sports and Me
2. I Discover Jack Scott
3. Spiro Agnew, the Bomber, and Oberlin College
4. The Athletic Revolution Fizzles
5. Meeting Patty: “You Shouldn’t Have Come Here”
6. Armed and Dangerous?
7. Scared and Saying Stupid Things in the Monster’s Belly
8. From Informant to Resister
9. Tumbling Down the Stairs like a Rolling Stone
10. The Scotts Lash Out and We Split Up
11. In Contempt and Off to Prison
12. Feeling Forgotten
13. Finally, a Newspaper Job
14. Jack’s Wake
15. Finding Bill Walton and Cross-Examining My Judge
Epilogue: Two Unanswered Questions
Recenzii
"Jay Weiner has written a coming-of-age story unlike any I have ever read. With the wisdom acquired over a half-century of distance, and with the storytelling skills of a master journalist, he has revisited both the bracing idealism and the dangerous self-delusions of the New Left. Weiner may have been only a bit player in the saga of Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army, but even that fleeting proximity endows this book with its drama and its tragedy."—Samuel G. Freedman, author of Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
"Through his experiences in socially conscious sportswriting, Patty Hearst’s fugitive run, and his federal incarceration without being convicted of a crime, Jay Weiner surprised and intrigued me in A More Dangerous Game. It’s a powerful and fast-moving account of gaining wisdom the hard way."—Jack El-Hai, author of The Case of the Autographed Corpse and The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
"Jay Weiner is an award-winning former sports journalist who never abided by the admonition to ‘stick to sports.’ To read his intriguing memoir is to find out why. A More Dangerous Game tells the story of a surprising slice of American history with a compelling cast of characters, famous and infamous. Even though it happened decades ago, it’s a story worth retelling to this day."—Christine Brennan, USA Today columnist and author of On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports
"In A More Dangerous Game, Jay Weiner perfectly captures the zeitgeist of the 1970s through his brief, chance encounter with the notorious Patty Hearst. He could not have predicted the years-long saga that would follow, which ended with a stint in federal prison. Weiner’s book reminds us that true life is stranger than fiction." —Rachael Hanel, author of Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman’s Path from Small-town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army
"Through his experiences in socially conscious sportswriting, Patty Hearst’s fugitive run, and his federal incarceration without being convicted of a crime, Jay Weiner surprised and intrigued me in A More Dangerous Game. It’s a powerful and fast-moving account of gaining wisdom the hard way."—Jack El-Hai, author of The Case of the Autographed Corpse and The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
"Jay Weiner is an award-winning former sports journalist who never abided by the admonition to ‘stick to sports.’ To read his intriguing memoir is to find out why. A More Dangerous Game tells the story of a surprising slice of American history with a compelling cast of characters, famous and infamous. Even though it happened decades ago, it’s a story worth retelling to this day."—Christine Brennan, USA Today columnist and author of On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports
"In A More Dangerous Game, Jay Weiner perfectly captures the zeitgeist of the 1970s through his brief, chance encounter with the notorious Patty Hearst. He could not have predicted the years-long saga that would follow, which ended with a stint in federal prison. Weiner’s book reminds us that true life is stranger than fiction." —Rachael Hanel, author of Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman’s Path from Small-town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army