Some Champions Sketches and Fiction Author:Ring Lardner Ring Lardner has been resurrected as an authentic American humorist. Wit and style flash from this fresh collection of Lardner improbables. Listening to the stories and these current Lardner themes of innocence, of worldliness and its miscues, one realizes the people and times of which Lardner writes, while an authentic part of our recent past... more », are now dead as the dodo. A bracing illustration of the change in our national character, if any is needed.« less