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Zev Eleff is President and Professor of American Jewish History at Gratz College. He is the author, most recently, of Dyed in Crimson: Football, Faith, and Remaking Harvard's America.'This book offers a fascinating tour of Americans' changing ideas about what constitutes greatness and, in particular, who warrants the designation 'greatest of all time.' Our culture continually promotes, idolizes, and eventually discounts and devalues accomplishments, as once-celebrated reputations confront shifts in what we value - and who and what we think should be honored. Arguments about who deserves to be considered the greatest will never be the same.' Joel Best, Emeritus Professor at the University of Delaware, and author of Everyone's a Winner: Life in Our Congratulatory Culture
'This is high quality scholarship. Eleff has identified a uniquely American, heretofore understudied fixation and analyzed it with insight and rigor. We can take a great deal of intellectual pleasure in this superb book.' Seth Jacobs, author of Rogue Diplomats: The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy