Live All You Can: Alexander Joy Cartwright and the Invention of Modern Baseball

Jay Martin

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July, 2009
Cloth, 168 pages, 20 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-14794-1
$22.95 / £15.95

""[An] excellent biography . . . [that] aims to represent Dewey as an individual who was a thinker and reformer of international public influence. . . . Martin's book will interest anyone seeking a personal biography of Dewey.”" — Choice

"Engagingly written" — HistoryWire

"Live All You Can is so engaging I read it in two sittings. This book is by the far the most comprehensive record of Alexander Joy Cartwright's life yet available." — Robert Hamblin, author of Win or Win: A Season with Ron Shumate

"Jay Martin has given us a John Dewey with a passion for education and a passion for democracy, a man with an open spirit not only for America but also for the changes that swept China and Russia in the earliest decades of the twentieth century; a man who avoided academic inflation, grandstanding, and oratorical excess; a man with a passion above all for plainness and decency, the Harry Truman of American thinkers. Not only Dewey's thought but his life was democratic, as Jay Martin shows in this fine new psychologically revealing biography. A splendid achievement." — Robert D. Richardson, Author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind

Related Subjects

• American History

About the Author

Jay Martin is the Edward S. Gould Professor of Humanities, professor of government, and founder of the Questions of Civilization Program at Claremont McKenna College. He has written and edited twenty-one books, including biographies of Nathanael West, Henry Miller, John Dewey, and Conrad Aiken, along with a standard history of American literature from 1865 to 1914. His most recent book is the short story collection Baseball Magic.

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