Tunis's social conscience informs all of his books. He extols the fundamental principles of individual integrity (his criterion for the sports hero), while recognizing the need for a community of purpose (the hero's team) to achieve the liberty and social justice required for these principles to survive.
Ail-American offered groundbreaking treatment of racism in the 1940s, revealing a festering wound in American society that most people chose to ignore.
Near the conclusion of the novel, Perry realizes that Whistleville, a black community, is not just "a part of town you avoided but someone's home." Tunis's world remains socially relevant because of his ability to address large-scale injustice in very human terms......
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