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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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Zang, David
Fformat: Llyfr
Iaith:English
Cyhoeddwyd: Fayetteville [Ark.] : University of Arkansas Press, 2001.
Pynciau:
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.