Defending the American way of life : sport, culture, and the Cold War /

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"The Cold War was fought in every corner of society, including in the sport and entertainment industries. Recognizing the importance of culture in the battle for hearts and minds, the United States, like the Soviet Union, attempted to win the favor of citizens in nonaligned states through the s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rider, Toby C. (Editor ), Witherspoon, Kevin B. (Editor )
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2018.
Colección:Sport, culture & society (University of Arkansas Press)
Temas:
1900-1999
Nationalism and sports > United States > History > 20th century.
Sports > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Sports > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Sports > United States > History > 20th century.
Olympics > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Nationalisme et sports > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Sports > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Sports > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Sports > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Jeux olympiques > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Nationalism and sports
Olympics > Political aspects
Sports
Sports > Political aspects
Sports > Social aspects
United States
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : sport and American cold war culture / Toby C. Rider & Kevin Witherspoon
  • Projecting America : sport and early U.S. cold war propaganda, 1947-1960 / Toby C. Rider
  • Millard Lampell : from football to the blacklist / Dennis Gildea
  • The "big arms" race : doping and the cold war defense of American exceptionalism / John T. Gleaves & Matthew P. Llewellyn
  • Preserving "the American way" : Gerald R. Ford, the President's Commission on Olympic Sports, and the fight against state-funded sport in America / Nevada Cooke & Robert K. Barney
  • "Wolves in skirts?" : sex testing in cold war women's sport / Lindsay Parks Pieper
  • America's team : the U.S. Women's National Basketball Team confronts the Soviets, 1958-1969 / Kevin B. Witherspoon
  • To win one for the Gipper : football and the fashioning of a cold warrior / Katelyn Aguilar
  • "An outstanding representative of America" : Mal Whitfield and America's Black sports ambassadors in Africa / Kevin B. Witherspoon
  • "One of the greatest ambassadors that the United States has ever sent abroad" : Wilma Rudolph, American athletic icon for the cold war and civil rights movement / Cat Ariail
  • Defying the cultural boycott : Arthur Ashe, the anti-apartheid activist / Damion L. Thomas
  • Sport is not so separate from politics : diplomatic manipulation of Germany's postwar return to the Olympic movement / Heather L. Dichter
  • Sport and American foreign policy during the 1960s / Thomas M. Hunt
  • In defense of a neoliberal America: Ronald Reagan, domestic policy, and the Soviet boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games / Bradley J. Congelio
  • Olympic spectacles in the next "American century" : sport and nationalism in a post-cold war world / Mark Dyreson.

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