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Upstaters

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Poets, Pols, Prophets, and Bush-League Heroes of Upstate New York

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvBill Kauffman

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A native son on the history, literature, culture, and characters of the Upstate New York he loves.Over the last three-plus decades, Bill Kauffman has written about and interviewed upstate New York novelists, politicians, and civic activists who have given the region much of its pith, vitality, and distinctiveness. Upstaters collects the best of these, including profiles of upstate novelists Walter D. Edmonds, John Gardner, and Henry W. Clune; a portrait of congressional legend and World Bank president Barber Conable; appreciations of underknown writers Josephine Young Case, Martha Treichler, and Warren Hunting Smith; and a cast of characters that includes dying men and enterprising women, enfants terribles and eminences grises, doomed folksingers, and the cheapest man in America. These men and women do not exist in isolation; they give life to and draw life from their little places, and so their communities also slip into profile, from the literary capital of New York State (Utica) to the flame-tender of an all-but-extinct Olympic sport (Angelica). Kauffman, former vice president of the minor-league Batavia Muckdogs of the New York-Penn League (extinguished by Major League Baseball), writes also of the fight to maintain baseball in a Rust Belt town in a bottom-line age. His tone throughout is by turns amused, hortatory, wistful, angry, and earnest, but most of all animated by love for the part of New York that has nurtured, annoyed, and entertained him for a lifetime.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieExcelsior Editions
Antal sidor221
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9798855808551

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Bill Kauffman is the author of many books, among them Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette: A Mostly Affectionate Account of a Small Town’s Fight to Survive, which won the 2003 national Sense of Place award from Writers & Books, and Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism. He also wrote the screenplay for the feature film Copperhead, set in upstate New York. He lives in his native Batavia, New York.

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPeople: Portraits1. Henry W. Clune Knew His Place2. Walter D. Edmonds: Our Stalwart3. Barber B. Conable Jr.: Our Statesman4. John Gardner: This Bud's for Us5. Warren Hunting Smith: The Patrician6. Tim Tielman: The Buffalo Saver7. Greg & Jackie & RaeAnn & Richard: Waitin' on a Friend8. Jim Owen: A Saver's GraceSnapshots9. Harriet Tubman: In a Child's Eye10. The Brisbane Family: The Burgher and the Dreamer11. Mark Twain: Morose and Irritable in the Queen City12. Josephine Young Case: After Midnight13. Samuel Hopkins Adams: The Muckraker14. Edward Crone Jr.: Billy Pilgrim Turns Fifty15. Martha Treichler: The Black Mountaineers16. Jackson C. Frank: Radio Free America17. Midge Costanza: The Democracy, 197418. Danny: Vanishing Point19. Steve Huff: Grave Matters20. Wanda Frank: The Play's (Not) the Thing21. Coleen Dwyer: Coffee with Coleen22. Thomas: Life in a Cage23. Bill Clune: My Marlboro Man24. Pat Weissend: Dead Presidents25. Granville Hicks: Hicks's TownPlaces26. The Oneidans27. The Utica Club28. A Syracuse Idyll29. Armenians in the Falls30. The Roquers of Angelica31. The Schope Must Go On: The Chautauqua Institute32. Shorty Doesn't Live Here Anymore33. Ten Years After a Place in Time: Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette34. Thirty Years After a Place in Time: Every Man a King35. Moon Java: Satellite of Love36. In This House that I Call Home37. The Empire Versus Our Town38. The Tolling of the Bell: On the Bicentennial of the First Presbyterian Church of Elba39. Where at Least a Few People Know Your Name: The Bars of Batavia40. There Is Always Baseball in Batavia

"I’ve admired Bill Kauffman's books for years. Appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American." — Howard Frank Mosher, author of A Stranger in the Kingdom: A Novel"Bill Kauffman is one of America's wisest and funniest writers." — Tom Bissell, author of Creative Types: And Other Stories"Kauffman thinks and feels as a man fully awake; he writes like a dream." — Thomas Mallon, author of The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983–1994"Kauffman and I are the original patriots." — Gore Vidal, author of Lincoln: A Novel