SportsWorld : an American dreamland /

Tough and witty, SportsWorld is 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-fulfillm...

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Main Author: Lipsyte, Robert (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
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500 |a Originall published: New York : Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., ©1975. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Contents Introduction to the 2017 Edition Introduction to the Original Edition Chapter 1. Welcome to SportsWorld Chapter 2. Please Rise for Our National Pastime Chapter 3. Sport of the Sixties: Instant Replay ... Replay ... Replay ... Chapter 4. The Heavyweight Crown Prince of the World Chapter 5. Sport of the Seventies: Sly, Midnight Moves Chapter 6. The Rack Page Chapter 7. The Body Biz Chapter 8. Designated Heroes, Ranking Gods, All-Star Holy Persons Chapter 9. The Last American Dream Index. 
520 |a Tough and witty, SportsWorld is 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. SportsWorld is 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 Super Bowl 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. 
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650 0 |a Professional sports  |z United States. 
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650 7 |a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY  |x Sports.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a SPORTS & RECREATION  |x Sociology of Sports.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a SPORTS & RECREATION  |x Business Aspects.  |2 bisacsh 
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