America's Game The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation

Name: America's Game The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation
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ISBN: 9780375725067

ISBN-10: 0375725067

ISBN-13: 9780375725067

Edition: 2004

Authors: Michael MacCambridge

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It's difficult to imagine today--when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country's dominant sports entity--but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of a single generation in postwar America, the game charted an extraordinary rise in popularity, becoming a smartly managed, keenly marketed sports entertainment colossus whose action is ideally suited to television and whose sensibilities perfectly fit the modern age. America's Game traces pro football's grand transformation, from the World War II years, when the NFL was fighting for its very existence, to the…

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/18/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.92" long x 1.33" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Michael MacCambridge has written about movies, music, and popular culture, but he is best known as one of the nation's foremost authorities on pro and college football. His book America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured A Nation was named one of the most distinguished works of non-fiction by the Washington Post in 2004. MacCambridge's freelance work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, GQ, and many other publications. Since 1997, he has been an adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis.