University Press of America
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978-0-7618-5175-2 • Paperback • June 2010 • $45.99 • (£35.00)
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Bruce Fleming is a graduate of Haverford College with subsequent degrees from the University of Chicago and Vanderbilt University. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the Free University Berlin and has studied in Paris and Siena. He has taught for more than two decades at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. He is the author of numerous books ranging from aesthetics to political and military theory, dance criticism, and literary criticism. He has also published shorter pieces in many quarterlies and magazines, including the Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Antioch Review, Southwest Review, the Washington Post, The Nation, the Village Voice, and the Chronicle of Higher Education as well as scholarly venues. He won an O. Henry short story award; his novel Twilley was compared by critics to works by Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Proust, Thoreau, and David Lynch. In 2005 he won the Antioch Review Award for Distinguished Prose, a career award.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 1. The Problem with Modernity
Chapter 3 2. Running is Life
Chapter 4 3. Running in the Adirondacks
Chapter 5 4. Running on the National Mall
Chapter 6 5. Running in Barcelona
Chapter 7 6. Running in the Eastern Sierras
Chapter 8 7. Running in Las Vegas
Chapter 9 8. Running in Death Valley
Chapter 10 9. The Abandoned Teddy Bear
Chapter 11 Endnotes
Chapter 12 Index
Chapter 13 About the Author