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What is The Rocket : a cultural history of Maurice Richard about?

Portrait Of The Rocket As A Hockey Star -- The Life And Times Of Maurice Richard -- The Player -- The Twelve Labours Of Number 9 -- I. The Icon -- When The Eyes Speak... -- A Fiery Gaze -- Silences -- Tears -- What's In A Name? -- Le Rocket -- A Common Name -- Selling A Myth -- Buying The Rocket -- Living In Maurice Richard's House -- The Salesman -- The Rocket's Library -- Selling Himself -- The Rocket's Body -- Strength And Its Weaknesses -- Larger Than Life? -- That Obscure Object Of Desire -- Comparing The Incomparable -- Just Another Athlete? -- Today The Hockey Rink, Tomorrow The World -- Maurice Richard As Told To Children -- A Holy Trinity -- Setting An Example -- Legacies -- Ii. The Riot -- Commemorations -- March 4, 1851 -- Maurice Richard's Writings -- December 29, 1954-march 18, 1955 -- In Song -- ...in Print And On The Air -- ...in Story -- ...in Pictures -- Rocket Politics -- An Ethnic Dimension? -- Iii. A Myth -- Legend, Hero, Myth -- Legends And Heroes -- Myths -- Mythical Time -- 1956-60 -- The 1970s -- The Turn Of The Century -- Lament For The Rocket -- Chronicle Of A Death Foretold -- The Maurice Richards Of Spring 2000 -- A Final Resting Place -- Against Maurice

Author

Benoît Melançon

Publisher

Vancouver, BC ; Berkeley: Greystone Books

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781553653363

Subjects

Anthropology, History, Biography