People's History of Sports in the United States 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play

Name: People's History of Sports in the United States 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play
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ISBN: 9781595584779

ISBN-10: 1595584773

ISBN-13: 9781595584779

Edition: 2009

Authors: Dave Zirin

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A chronicle of larger-than-life sporting characters, dramatic contests and what amounts to an alternative history of the Unites States.

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 9/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.20" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Zirin is Editor of the Prince George's Post (Maryland) and writes the weekly column Edge of Sports (edgeofsports.com). He is a Senior Writer at Basketball.com and writes for The Source.



Series Preface


Preface


Acknowledgments



Until the Twentieth Century



Rough Riding



Sports and Leisure



No Depression



War and Its Discontents



Have We Gone Soft?



Sports on the Edge of Panic



The Flood Gates



The 1980s: Welcome to Hell



C.R.E.A.M



More of the Same Versus Change


Notes


Index