Making the American team : sport, culture, and the Olympic experience
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Making the American team : sport, culture, and the Olympic experience
(Sport and society)
University of Illinois Press, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-252) and index
Contents of Works
- Inventing the sporting republic
- Athens, 1896 : "See the conquering heroes come"
- Paris, 1900 : exhibiting American athletic nationalism
- St. Louis, 1904 : an "all-American" Olympics
- The limits of universal claims : how class, gender, race, and ethnicity shaped the sporting republic
- Athens, 1906, and London, 1908 : Uncle Sam was all right
- Stockholm, 1912 : the sporting republic's zenith
- The idea of a sporting republic : athletic technology, American political culture, and progressive visions of civilization
- The decline of the sporting republic
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780252023491
Table of Contents
Inventing the sporting republic -- Athens, 1896 : "See the conquering heroes come" -- Paris, 1900 : exhibiting American athletic nationalism -- St. Louis 1904 : an "all-American" Olympics -- The limits of universal claims : how class, gender, race, and ethnicity shaped the sporting republic -- Athens, 1906, and London, 1908 : Uncle Sam was all right -- Stockholm, 1912 : the sporting republic's zenith -- The idea of a sporting republic : athletic technology, American political culture, and progressive visions of civilizat -- The decline of the sporting republic.
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: pbk ISBN 9780252066542
Description
Sport dominates television and the mass media. Politics and business are a-bustle with sports metaphors. Endorsements by athletes sell us products. "Home run," "slam dunk," and the rest of the vocabulary of sport color daily conversation. Even in times of crisis and emergency, the media reports the scores and highlights.
Marky Dyreson delves into how our obsession with sport came into being with a close look at coverage of the Olympic Games between 1896 and 1912. How people reported and consumed information on the Olympics offers insight into how sport entered the heart of American culture as part of an impetus for social reform. Political leaders came to believe in the power of sport to revitalize the "republican experiment." Sport could instill a new sense of national identity that would forge a new sense of community and a healthy political order while at the same time linking America's intellectual and power elite with the experiences of the masses.
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