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SportsWorld: An American Dreamland

2018 Robert Lipsyte ;ISBN: 9780813593234 ;ISBN: 0813593239 ;ISBN: 9780813593203 ;ISBN: 0813593204 ;EISBN: 9780813593234 ;EISBN: 0813593239 ;EISBN: 9780813593210 ;EISBN: 0813593212 ;DOI: 10.36019/9780813593234 ;OCLC: 1023820948 ;LCCallNum: GV583 .L56 2018

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  • Title:
    SportsWorld: An American Dreamland
  • Author: Lipsyte, Robert
  • Subjects: Essays ; History ; Professional sports ; Recreational & performing arts ; Sociology ; Sports ; SPORTS & RECREATION ; United States
  • Description: Tough and witty,SportsWorldis a well-known commentator's overview of the most significant form of mass culture in America-sports. It's a sweaty Oz that has grown in a century from a crucible for character to a complex of capitalism, a place where young people can find both self-fulfillment and cruel exploitation, where families can huddle in a sanctuary of entertainment and be force fed values and where cities and countries can be pillaged by greedy team owners and their paid-for politicians. But this book is not just a screed, it's a guided visit with such heroes of sports as Muhammad Ali, Billie Jean King, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Joe Namath, who the author knew well, and with some he met in passing, like Richard Nixon, who seemed never to have gotten over missing the cut in college varsity football, a major mark of manhood. We see how SportsWorld sensibilities help elect our politicians, judge our children, fight our wars, and oppress our minorities. And now featuring a new introduction by the author,SportsWorldis a book that will provide the foundation for understanding today's world of sports and the time of Trump.In the America of 2017-where the SuperBowl is worth billions, athletes are penalized or forced out of sports for political and anti-racist activism, and Title IX is constantly questioned and undermined-Robert Lipsyte's 1975 critique remains startlingly and intensely relevant.
  • Publisher: United States: Rutgers University Press
  • Creation Date: 2018
  • Format: 296
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780813593234
    ISBN: 0813593239
    ISBN: 9780813593203
    ISBN: 0813593204
    EISBN: 9780813593234
    EISBN: 0813593239
    EISBN: 9780813593210
    EISBN: 0813593212
    DOI: 10.36019/9780813593234
    OCLC: 1023820948
    LCCallNum: GV583 .L56 2018
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