A few quick mentions for some exciting UNP news:
Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit by Neil deMause and Joanna Cagan was mentioned in the Washington Post by Norman Chad.
Chad said “It’s a pretty good read, and I guarantee you it will save the city money,” in his article titled Los Angeles: the latest stop in the ‘No More Stadiums’ tour.
To read the full article, click here.
Paul VanDevelder’s book, Savages and Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America’s Road to Empire Through Indian Territory (Yale University Press) won a 2011 Oregon Book Award on Monday.
Paul’s work has been published in New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Audubon, Esquire, and the Seattle Times, as well as a book with the University of Nebraska Press, Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation.
Click here for a full article that ran in the Corvallis Gazette-Times about VanDevelder and his reaction to winning.
Larry Baldassaro, author of Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball, had an event at the Yogi Berra Museum sponsored by the Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America, based at Montclair State.
Baldassaro said that the “icing on the cake” was meeting Yogi. He said, “To meet a legend like Yogi was fun even for a Red Sox fan like myself who recalls watching him beat the Sox many times.”
Baldassaro was also interviewed on April 23 by Marty Lurie on the Giant’s pre-game show on KNBR San Francisco.
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