Bibliography - A Terrible Splendor

Tennis

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Baltzell, E. Digby. Sporting Gentlemen: Men’s Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar. New York: Free Press, 1995.

Beardsley, Cynthia. Frank Parker: Champion in the Golden Age of Tennis. Chicago: Havilah Press, 2002.

Bowers, Ray. Forgotten Victories: History of the Pro Tennis Wars 1926-1945. Published 1999-2007   

online at http://www.tennisserver.com/lines/.

Budge, Don. Don Budge: a Tennis Memoir. New York: Viking Press, 1969.

Budge, Don. Budge on Tennis. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1939.

Clerici, Gianni. The Ultimate Tennis Book. Transl. Richard J. Wiezell. Chicago: Follett, 1975.

Collins, Bud. Bud Collins’ Modern Encyclopedia of Tennis. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994.

Danzig, Allison and Peter Schwed, ed. The Fireside Book of Tennis. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.

Deford, Frank. Big Bill Tilden: the Triumphs and the Tragedy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976.

Evans, Richard. The Davis Cup: Celebrating 100 Years of International Tennis. New York: Universe, 1998.

Forbes, Gordon. A Handful of Summers. London: Heinemann, 1978.

Frayne, Trent. Famous Tennis Players. New York : Dodd, Mead, 1977.

Grimsley, Will. Tennis: Its History, People and Events. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1971.

Hart, Stan. Once a Champion. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1985.

Kaiser, Ulrich, ed. Tennis in Deutschland. Von den Anfaengen bis 2002. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot GmbH, 2002.

Laney, Al. Covering the Court.  New York: Simon&Schuster, 1968.

Lecompte, Tom. The Last Sure Thing: the Life and Times of Bobby Riggs. Easthampton: Black Squirrel, 2003.

Marble, Alice. Courting Danger. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.

McPhee, John. Wimbledon: A Celebration. New York: Viking Press, 1972.

Metzler, Paul. Tennis Styles and Stylists. New York: Macmillan, 1969.

Olliff, John. Olliff on Tennis. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1948.

Perry, Frederick. My Story. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1934.

Perry, Fred. Fred Perry: an Autobiography. London: Arrow Books, 1985 (c1984).

Reznicek, Paula Stuck von.  Gottfried von Cramm: Der Gentleman von Wimbledon. Nürnberg: Olympia-Verlag, 1949.

Reznicek, Paula Stuck von. Tennis-Faszination. München, Schumacher-Gebler, 1969.

Riggs, Bobby (with George McGann). Court Hustler. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1973.

Rot-Weiss Tennis Club. Gottfried Freiherr von Cramm: Fair Play ein Leben Lang 1909-1976. Berlin: Rot-Weiss Club, 1977.

Sharnik, John. Remembrance of Games Past: On Tour with the Tennis Grand Masters. New York: MacMillan, 1986.

Shields, William X. Bigger than Life: the Last Great Amateur. A Biography of Francis X. Shields. New York: Freundlich, 1986.

Steinkamp, Egon. Gottfried von Cramm, der Tennisbaron: eine Biographie. München: Herbig, 1990.

Tilden, William T.  Match Play and the Spin of the Ball. New York : Arno Press, 1975 (c1925).

Tilden, William T. Glory’s Net. Garden City: Doubleday, 1930.

Tilden, William T.  Aces, Places and Faults. London: Hale, 1938.

Tilden, William T. My Story; a Champion’s Memoirs. New York: Hellman, Williams & Co., 1948.

Tilden, William T.  Tennis A to Z. London: Gollancz, 1950.

Tinling, Ted. Love and faults: Personalities Who Have Changed the History of Tennis in My Lifetime. New York: Crown, 1979.

Tinling, Ted. Sixty Years in Tennis. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1983.

Trengove, Alan. The Story of the Davis Cup. London: S. Paul, 1985.

Wind, Herbert Warren.  The Realm of Sport. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966.

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Gay History

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Beck, Gad. An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.

Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic

Books, 1994.

Gordon, Mel. Voluptuous Panic. Venice, Calif.: Feral House, 2001.

Heger, Heinz. The Men with the Pink Triangle. Transl. David Fernbach.  Boston: Alyson Publications, 1980.

Isherwood, Christopher. Christopher and His Kind.  New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1976.

Plant, Richard. The Pink Triangle: the Nazi War against Homosexuals. New York: Holt, 1986.

Riess, Curt. Auch Du, Cäsar: Homosexualität als Schicksal. München, Universitas, 1981.

Seel, Pierre. I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

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Germany

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Gruenberg, Morris. Berlin N-54. Maitland: Romex International, 2000.

Haffner, Sebastian. Defying Hitler: a Memoir. Transl. Oliver Pretzel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

Large, David Clay. Nazi Games. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007.

Mann, Klaus. Mephisto. New York: Random House, 1977.

Metternich, Tatiana. Purgatory of Fools. New York: Quadrangle/NYT, 1976.

Pretzel, Andreas. Wegen der zu erwartenden hohen Strafe– : Homosexuellenverfolgung in Berlin 1933-1945. Berlin: R. Winkel, 2000.

Richie, Alexandra. Faust’s Metropolis. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998.

Roper, Edith. Skeleton of Justice. Transl. Clara Leiser. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1941.

Roth, Joseph. What I Saw: reports from Berlin 1920-33. Transl. Michael Hofmann. London: Granta Books, 2003.

Schiff, Stacy. Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov). New York: Random House, 1999.

Schmeling, Max. Max Schmeling: an Autobiography. Chicago: Bonus Books, 1998.

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.

Vassiltchikov, Marie. Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945. New York: Knopf, 1985.

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Other

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Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only Yesterday: an Informal History of the 1920’s. New York: Harper & Row,  1931.

Allen, Frederick Lewis. Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1940.

Andrist, Ralph K., ed. The American Heritage History of the 20’s & 30’s. New York: American Heritage/Bonanza Books, 1970.

Beaton,  Cecil. The Wandering Years: Diaries, 1922-1939. Boston: Little, Brown, 1962.

Beaton, Cecil. The Years Between; Diaries 1939-44. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.

Cooke, Alistair, “German Baron v. California Truck Driver’s Son: A study in good ambassadorship.” Radio broadcast over WEAF,

August 4, 1937. In Vital Speeches of the Day. New York: The City News Pub. Co. p661-3.

Eldridge, Mona. In Search of a Prince: My Life with Barbara Hutton. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1988

Eurich, Alvin C. and Elmo C. Wilson.  In 1936. New York: Holt, 1937.

Fisher, David E. and Marshall Jon Fisher. Tube: the Invention of Television. Washington: Counterpoint, 1996.

Gilbert, Martin, ed. Lloyd George. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1968.

Graves, Robert and Alan Hodge. The Long Weekend: a Social History of Great Britain, 1918-1939. London: Faber and Faber, 1940.

Heymann, C. David. Poor Little Rich Girl: the Life and Legend of Barbara Hutton. New York: Random House, 1983.

Holroyd, Michael. Mosaic: A Family Memoir Revisited. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.

Jennings, Dean Southern. Barbara Hutton; a candid biography. New York: Fell, 1968.

Killorin, Joseph, ed. Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.

Kinney, Harrison. James Thurber: His Life and Times. New York: Holt, 1995.

Kinney, Harrison, and Rosemary A. Thurber, ed. The Thurber Letters. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

Maguire, James. Impresario: The Life and Times of Ed Sullivan. New York: Billboard, 2006.

Margolick, David. Beyond Glory: Joe Lous vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink. New York: Knopf, 2005.

Mowat, Charles Loch. Britain Between the Wars 1918-1940. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1955.

Myler, Patrick. Ring of Hate: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling: the Fight of the Century. New York: Arcade, 2005.

Owen, Frank. Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George, His Life and Times. New York: McGraw Hill, 1955.

Rice, Grantland. The Tumult and the Shouting. New York: Barnes, 1954.

Urquhart, Brian. Ralph Bunch: an American Odyssey. New York, Norton, 1993.

Wilson, Christopher. Dancing with the Devil : The Windsors and Jimmy Donahue. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001.

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Also Consulted:

 

Brookes, Mabel. Crowded Galleries. London: W. Heinemann, 1956.

Coombe, Dennis. History of the Davis Cup. Sydney, Australia: Australasian Pub. Co., 1949.

Drobny, Jaroslav. Champion in Exile. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1955.

Duff, Sheila Grant. The Parting of Ways: a Personal Account of the Thirties. London: Owen, 1982.

Dulles, Allen. Germany’s Underground: The Anti-Nazi Resistance. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1947.

Gannon, Franklin Reid. The British Press and Germany, 1936-1939. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.

von Gersdorff, Rudolph-Chrostoph. Soldat im Untergang. Frankfurt, Berlin, Wien: Ullstein, 1977.

Gillmeister, Heiner. Kulturgeschichte des Tennis. London: Leicester University Press, 1997.

Hillyard, GW. Forty Years of First-Class Lawn Tennis. London: Williams & Norgate, 1924.

Hopman, Harry. Aces and Places. London: Cassell, 1957.

Kramer, John Albert. The Game: My 40 Years in Tennis. New York: Putnam, 1979..

Levy, Shawn. The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa. New York: Fourth Estate, 2005.

Levy, Adrian and Cathy Scott-Clark. The Stone of Heaven. Boston: Little Brown, 2002.

Keys, Barbara J. Globalizing Sport : National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard

University Press, 2006.

Jellonnek, Burkhard. Homosexuelle unter dem Hakenkreuz: die Verfolgung von Homosexuellen im Dritten Reich. Paderborn: F.

Schöningh, c1990.

Kriplen, Nancy. Dwight Davis: The Man and the Cup. London: Ebury, 1999.

Macaulay, Duncan. Behind the Scenes at Wimbledon. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1965.

Mandell, Richard D. The Nazi Olympics. New York: MacMillan, 1971.

Medlycott, James. 100 years of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. New York: Crescent Books, 1977.

Menzel, Roderich. Weltmacht Tennis. München: Aeneas, 1951.

Mulloy, Gardner. Advantage Striker. London: A. Wingate, 1959.

Nachrichten-Blatt des Tennis-Club 1899 E.V. (Blau-Weiss). 1933-38.

Olliff, John. Lawn Tennis. London: Pitman, 1950.

Olliff, John. The Romance of Wimbledon. London: Hutchinson, 1948.

Patty, Budge. Tennis My Way. London, New York: Hutchinson’s Library of Sports and Pastimes, 1951.

Peukert, Detlev. Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Opposition and Racism in Everyday Life. London : Batsford, 1987.

Potter, E. The Davis Cup. So. Brunswick, NJ: A. S. Barnes, 1969.

Potter, E. C. Kings of the Court. New York: Barnes & Co., 1963.

Van Rensselaer, Philip. Million Dollar Baby: an Intimate Portrait of Barbara Hutton. New York: Putnam, 1979.

Robyns, Gwen. Wimbledon: the Hidden Drama. New York, Drake Publishers, 1974.

Theodoracopulos, Taki. Nothing to Declare: A Memoir. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.

Voss, Arthur. Tilden and Tennis in the Twenties. Troy, N.Y.: Whitston Pub. Co., 1985.

Zenter, Christian and Friedemann Bedurftig. The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. Munich: Sudwest Verlag GmbH & co., 1985.