SportsWars : athletes in the age of Aquarius /
"The Vietnam era's tensions - between tradition and new possibilities, black and white, young and old, male and female - were played out on the field of professional and organized sports. Sports Wars shows that the century-old position of sports as the standard-bearer for American values,...
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Fayetteville [Ark.] :
University of Arkansas Press,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. A Star-Spangled Collision: Sports and Rock 'n' Roll in the '60s
- Ch. 2. Toil and Trouble: A Parable of Hard Work and Fun
- Ch. 3. Ivy League Jeremiad: The Struggle between Winning and Character
- Ch. 4. When Falls the Coliseum: New Perceptions of the Physical
- Ch. 5. The Greatest: Muhammad Ali's Confounding Character
- Ch. 6. Terrapin Soup: Challenging Authority
- Ch. 7. The Bad News Bears: Hollywood Presents the End of the Era.