The American Dream And The National Game

Author : Leverett T. Smith (Jr.)
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0879728671

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The American Dream and the National Game by Leverett T. Smith (Jr.) Pdf

This engaging study examines sports as both a symbol of American culture and a formative force that shapes American values. Leverett T. Smith Jr. uses "high" culture, in the form of literature and criticism, to analyze the popular culture of baseball and professional football. He explores the history of baseball through three important events: the fixing of the 1919 World Series, the appointment of Judge Landis as commissioner of baseball with dictatorial powers, and the emergence of Babe Ruth as the "new" kind of ball player. He also looks at literary works dealing with leisure and sports, including those of Thoreau, Twain, Frost, Lardner, and Hemingway. Finally he documents the emergence of professional football as the national game through the history and writings of former Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, who emerges as both a critic of the business-oriented society and a canny businessman and manager of men himself. First paperback edition

Author : Robert Elias
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317325185

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Baseball and the American Dream by Robert Elias Pdf

A fascinating look at how America's favorite sport has both reflected and shaped social, economic, and

Author : Peter Levine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190282127

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Ellis Island to Ebbets Field by Peter Levine Pdf

In Ellis Island to Ebbets Field, Peter Levine vividly recounts the stories of Red Auerbach, Hank Greenberg, Moe Berg, Sid Luckman, Nat Holman, Benny Leonard, Barney Ross, Marty Glickman, and a host of others who became Jewish heroes and symbols of the difficult struggle for American success. From settlement houses and street corners, to Madison Square and Fenway Park, their experiences recall a time when Jewish males dominated sports like boxing and basketball, helping to smash stereotypes about Jewish weakness while instilling American Jews with a fierce pride in their strength and ability in the face of Nazi aggression, domestic anti-Semitism, and economic depression. Full of marvelous stories, anecdotes, and personalities, Ellis Island to Ebbets Field enhances our understanding of the Jewish-American experience as well as the struggles of other American minority groups.

Author : Robert Elias
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317325178

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Baseball and the American Dream by Robert Elias Pdf

A fascinating look at how America's favorite sport has both reflected and shaped social, economic, and

Author : Howard L. Nixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Sports
ISBN : 0608071056

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Sport and the American Dream by Howard L. Nixon Pdf

Author : Pamela Grundy,Benjamin G Rader
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315509242

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American Sports by Pamela Grundy,Benjamin G Rader Pdf

American Sports offers a reflective, analytical history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. Readers will focus on the diverse relationships between sports and class, gender, race, ethnicity, religion and region, and understand how these interactions can bind diverse groups together. By considering the economic, social and cultural factors that have surrounded competitive sports, readers will understand how sports have reinforced or challenged the values and behaviors of society.

Author : Peter Devereaux,Library of Congress
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781588346346

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Game Faces by Peter Devereaux,Library of Congress Pdf

A charming gift book showcasing baseball cards from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries alongside photos from the early days of the nation's beloved pastime Game Faces showcases rare and colorful baseball cards from the Library of Congress's Benjamin K. Edwards Collection, bringing to life an era of American history that saw the game explode in popularity. Marrying gems from the collection's 2,100 baseball cards to images of American life from 1887 to 1914, the book also offers engaging insights into the players and the game, giving readers an intimate view of both baseball's development and American culture at the turn of the twentieth century. The book highlights cards depicting many of the game's first stars--including Ty Cobb, Cy Young, and Christy Mathewson--as well as less widely known figures, shown with extravagant ornamentation and boldly juxtaposed colors that render the cards works of art in their own right. Game Faces is a rich, engrossing history of the baseball card and the ways that it has illustrated and influenced American culture as a whole. It is a must-have for those who love baseball.

Author : Sarah L. Trembanis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786477968

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The Set-Up Men by Sarah L. Trembanis Pdf

This book is an examination of cultural resistance to segregation in the world of black baseball through an analysis of editorial art, folktales, nicknames, "manhood" and the art of clowning. African Americans worked to dismantle Jim Crow through the creation of a cultural counter-narrative that centered on baseball and the Negro Leagues that celebrated black achievement and that highlighted the contradictions and fallacies of white supremacy in the first half of the twentieth century.

Author : Ron Briley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476629759

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Class at Bat, Gender on Deck and Race in the Hole by Ron Briley Pdf

Nineteen essays by Briley focus on major league baseball as it reflected the changing American culture from about 1945 to about 1980. He examines the era through the lens of race, gender and class—categories which have increasingly become essential analytical tools for scholars. The accounts of Roman Mejias and Cesar Cedeno offer some disturbing insights regarding the acceptance of Latinos in baseball and American society. In one essay, Briley refers to baseball as the heart of the nation's democratic spirit, noting that the son of a rural farmer could play alongside a governor’s son and both would receive only the praise that their playing merited. However, in writing about the Milwaukee Braves’move to Atlanta, the lamentations of fans—that baseball had succumbed to the age of affluence—are compared to the changing patterns of demographics and economic power in American society. Even with the increased participation of women on the field with teams like the Silver Bullets, the final essay comments on organized baseball’s perception of them as primarily spectators. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Allen Guttmann
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0807842206

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A Whole New Ball Game by Allen Guttmann Pdf

Traces the development of modern collegiate and professional sports, explains how they reflect American culture, and looks at the role sports have played in Americanizing immigrants

Author : Jack Salzman,American Studies Association
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1986-08-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521266874

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American Studies by Jack Salzman,American Studies Association Pdf

A major three-volume bibliography, including an additional supplement, of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1900 and 1988.

Author : Patrick Joseph Harrigan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0802079032

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The Detroit Tigers by Patrick Joseph Harrigan Pdf

A vivid portrait of a team, a sport and its far-reaching influence. The Detroit Tigers are a curious reflection of America's post-war urban society and this book illustrates the inextricable links between this team and its hometown.

Author : Mark Dyreson,J.A. Mangan,Roberta J. Park
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317980360

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Mapping an Empire of American Sport by Mark Dyreson,J.A. Mangan,Roberta J. Park Pdf

Since the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim, but also in every corner of the rest of the world. Through modern sport in general, and through American pastimes such as baseball, basketball and the American variant of football in particular, the U.S. has sought to Americanize the globe’s masses in a long series of both domestic and foreign campaigns. Sport played roles in American programs of cultural, economic, and political expansion. Sport also contributed to American efforts to assimilate immigrant populations. Even in American games such as baseball and football, sport has also served as an agent of resistance to American imperial designs among the nations of the Western hemisphere and the Pacific Rim. As the twenty-first century begins, sport continues to shape American visions of a global empire as well as framing resistance to American imperial designs. Mapping an Empire of American Sport chronicles the dynamic tensions in the role of sport as an element in both the expansion of and the resistance to American power, and in sport’s dual role as an instrument for assimilation and adaptation. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : William H. Young,Nancy K. Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313356537

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World War II and the Postwar Years in America [2 volumes] by William H. Young,Nancy K. Young Pdf

More than 150 articles provide a revealing look at one of the most tempestuous decades in recent American history, describing the everyday activities of Americans as they dealt first with war, and then a difficult transition to peace and prosperity. The two-volume World War II and the Postwar Years in America: A Historical and Cultural Encyclopedia contains over 175 articles describing everyday life on the American home front during World War II and the immediate postwar years. Unlike publications about this period that focus mainly on the big picture of the war and subsequent economic conditions, this encyclopedia drills down to the popular culture of the 1940s, bringing the details of the lives of ordinary men, women, and children alive. The work covers a broad range of everyday activities throughout the 1940s, including movies, radio programming, music, the birth of commercial television, advertising, art, bestsellers, and other equally intriguing topics. The decade was divided almost evenly between war (1940-1945) and peace (1946-1950), and the articles point up the continuities and differences between these two periods. Filled with evocative photographs, this unique encyclopedia will serve as an excellent resource for those seeking an overview of life in the United States during a decade that helped shape the modern world.

Author : James E. Combs
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0879722762

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Polpop by James E. Combs Pdf

This book discusses various components of popular culture and the effects they have on politics. Some of the areas of mass culture which are discussed are: popular dramas, folk heritage, the Western myth, sports, religion, media, propaganda, and show business.