Legends Never Die : Athletes and their Afterlives in Modern America /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kimball, Richard Ian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2017.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sports in popular culture.
Athletes > Public opinion.
Athletes.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Mortalite prematuree > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Sportifs > États-Unis > Biographies.
Sportifs > États-Unis > Opinion publique.
Sportifs > États-Unis > Mort.
Sports dans la culture populaire > États-Unis.
ATHLETES.
Premature death > Social aspects > United States.
Athletes > United States > Biography.
Athletes > United States > Public opinion.
Athletes > United States > Death.
Sports in popular culture > United States.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : making immortals
  • Why Lou Gehrig was lucky : a meditation on the mortality of American athletes
  • The Gipper wins one for the Gipper : George Gipp, Knute Rockne, and Ronald Reagan
  • Only cowgirls get the blues : Bonnie McCarroll and Lane Frost
  • Who killed Benny Paret?
  • "Princess Diana with a pushbroom mustache" : Dale Earnhardt and the narratives of a NASCAR death
  • To an athlete dying old : Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Ted Williams.

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