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More Than Just a Game: Sports in American Life Since 1945
Author(s): Kathryn Jay (Author)
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Publication Date: 22 April 2006
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 316 pages
- ISBN-10: 0231125356
- ISBN-13: 9780231125352
Book Description
This book examines major sports, both professional and intercollegiate, from baseball, football, and basketball to golf, tennis, stock car racing, and extreme sports, to explain how sports became a multibillion-dollar industry as well as a major influence on and reflection of American society. Jay also shows how sports have helped shape racial, gender, national, and class identities.
Editorial Reviews
Review
[Jay] traces the complex evolution of sports in American society over the course of the past sixty years, explaining how and why the major sports... have become a multibillion-dollar industry, as well as a major influence on and reflection of American society.-- "Forecast"
A valuable and necessary read... Riveting.--Terry Martin "Aethlon"
Dr. Jay has produced a useful and thoughtful volume... it offers much insight into, and raises important questions about, recent developments in American Sport.--Richard C. Crepeau "The Journal of American History"
Her judgments are sharp, her insights astute, and her breadth remarkable...Highly recommended.-- "Choice"
Jay's exciting--sometimes breathless--commentary on the evolution of sports in late 20th-century America touches all the bases, scoring point after point with her lucid insights and evocative prose.-- "Publishers Weekly"
Jay's historical and sociological treatment offers many important details on women in sports... This would be a good textbook for an undergraduate sport history class. Recommended for academic libraries.-- "Library Journal"
