Rooting Interests: Party Politics and Spectator Sports

David Henkin

David M. Henkin is Professor of History at University of California, Berkeley, where he has been on the faculty for three decades, teaching the social and cultural history of the United States and writing about popular culture and everyday life. He is the author of City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York (1998); The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America (2006); Becoming America: A History for the 21stCentury (with Rebecca McLennan, 2014, 2022); The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms that Made Us Who We Are (2021); and Out of the Ballpark: How to Think about Baseball (2026); and numerous articles and shorter pieces.

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