Pigskin Nation : How the NFL Remade American Politics /

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"When we think about "the '60s," most of us know where the era's major confrontations took place--outside the Pentagon, on college campuses, in the streets of Chicago. Not on the sidelines of a football field. Yet football was the sport of the decade. What did it say that Am...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berrett, Jesse Isaac (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
National Football League.
National Football League > History > 20th century.
Political culture.
Football.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
SPORTS & RECREATION / Football.
Political culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Football > Political aspects > United States.
Football > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I MAKING FOOTBALL IMPORTANT
  • 1. No Football Fans, Just Football Intellectuals
  • 2. Search and Destroy
  • 3. NFL's Role in American History (Somebody's Gotta Be Kidding)
  • pt. II MAKING FOOTBALL POLITICAL
  • 4. Kennedy/Lombardi School
  • 5. Real Coup with the Sports Fans
  • 6. I Really Believed in the Man
  • 7. Out of Their League
  • 8. Right Coach, Wrong Game.

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