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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. SportsWars shows that the century-old position of sports as the standard-bearer for American values, and as a...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Zang, David
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2001.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • A star-spangled collision : sports and rock 'n' roll in the '60s
  • Toil and trouble : a parable of hard work and fun
  • Ivy league jeremiad : the struggle between winning and character
  • When falls the coliseum : new perceptions of the physical
  • The greatest : Muhammad Ali's confounding character
  • Terrapin soup : challenging authority
  • The bad news bears : Hollywood presents the end of the era.