Winning Is the Only Thing

Sports in America Since 1945
Erscheinungsjahr 1991
ISBN: 978-0-8018-4240-5
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 358 g

Reihe: The American Moment

In Winning Is the Only Thing, Randy Roberts and James Olson take a hard look at the dark side of American sports. The scandals. The role of organized crime. How politicians and businessmen exploit the Olympics. Who gets rich and who goes broke. Why the fitness craze has nothing to do with fitness. And how TV sports czars like Roone Arledge—inventor of the "instant replay"—actually dictate how games are played.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberts, Randy

Olson, James S

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Geschichte des Sports

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Chapter 1. The World That Hiroshima Created: The Olympic Games and the Cold War
Chapter 2. The Integration of American Sports
Chapter 3. Work and Play: The Business of Professional Sports
Chapter 4. Scandal Time
Chapter 5. Television, Sports, and Mass Culture
Chapter 6. The Roone Revolution
Chapter 7. The New Rules of the Game
Chapter 8. The Black Rebellion in American Sports
Chapter 9. In the Shadow of Munich
Chapter 10. Sports and Self in Modern America
Bibliographic Essay
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Olson, James S
James S. Olson is the Texas State University System Regents Professor of History at Sam Houston State University. He has written and edited dozens of books, including Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Roberts, Randy
Randy Roberts is the author of A Season in the Sun: The Rise of Mickey Mantle, Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, and many more.

Randy Roberts is the author of A Season in the Sun: The Rise of Mickey Mantle, Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, and many more. James S. Olson is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the history department at Sam Houston State University. He is the author of Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History, available from Johns Hopkins, and John Wayne: American.