Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon by Dickey, Bronwen
Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon by Dickey, Bronwen

Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon

The hugely illuminating story of how a popular breed of dog became the most demonized and supposedly...
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Author: Bronwen Dickey
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Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon by Dickey, Bronwen

Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon

$71.20
Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon by Dickey, Bronwen

Pit Bull: The Battle Over an American Icon

$71.20
Author: Bronwen Dickey
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
The hugely illuminating story of how a popular breed of dog became the most demonized and supposedly the most dangerous of dogs--and what role humans have played in the transformation.

When Bronwen Dickey brought her new dog home, she saw no traces of the infamous viciousness in her affectionate, timid pit bull. Which made her wonder: How had the breed--beloved by Teddy Roosevelt, Helen Keller, and Hollywood's "Little Rascals"--come to be known as a brutal fighter?

Her search for answers takes her from nineteenth-century New York City dogfighting pits--the cruelty of which drew the attention of the recently formed ASPCA--to early twentieth-century movie sets, where pit bulls cavorted with Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton; from the battlefields of Gettysburg and the Marne, where pit bulls earned presidential recognition, to desolate urban neighborhoods where the dogs were loved, prized--and sometimes brutalized.

Whether through love or fear, hatred or devotion, humans are bound to the history of the pit bull. With unfailing thoughtfulness, compassion, and a firm grasp of scientific fact, Dickey offers us a clear-eyed portrait of this extraordinary breed, and an insightful view of Americans' relationship with their dogs.

Author: Bronwen Dickey
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 05/10/2016
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.50w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780307961761


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/15/2016 pg. 128
Publishers Weekly 02/29/2016
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2016
BookPage 05/01/2016
Booklist 05/01/2016 pg. 59
Shelf Awareness 05/17/2016

About the Author
BRONWEN DICKEY is an essayist and journalist who writes regularly for the Oxford American. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Slate, The Best American Travel Writing 2009, Newsweek, and Outside, among other publications. In 2009 she received a first-place Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award and a MacDowell Colony residency grant. She lives in North Carolina.


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