Defending the American way of life : sport, culture, and the Cold War / edited by Toby C. Rider and Kevin B. Witherspoon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rider, Toby C., editor.

Witherspoon, Kevin B., editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Sport, culture & society (University of Arkansas Press)

Sport, culture, & society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism and sports--United States--History--20th century.

Nationalism and sports.

Sports--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Sports.

Sports--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Sports--United States--History--20th century.

Olympics--Political aspects.

History.

Sports--Political aspects.

Sports--Social aspects.

United States.

Olympics--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Olympics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 305 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction : sport and American cold war culture / Toby C. Rider & Kevin Witherspoon

Projecting America : sport and early U.S. cold war propaganda, 1947-1960 / Toby C. Rider

Millard Lampell : from football to the blacklist / Dennis Gildea

The "big arms" race : doping and the cold war defense of American exceptionalism / John T. Gleaves & Matthew P. Llewellyn

Preserving "the American way" : Gerald R. Ford, the President's Commission on Olympic Sports, and the fight against state-funded sport in America / Nevada Cooke & Robert K. Barney

"Wolves in skirts?" : sex testing in cold war women's sport / Lindsay Parks Pieper

America's team : the U.S. Women's National Basketball Team confronts the Soviets, 1958-1969 / Kevin B. Witherspoon

To win one for the Gipper : football and the fashioning of a cold warrior / Katelyn Aguilar

"An outstanding representative of America" : Mal Whitfield and America's Black sports ambassadors in Africa / Kevin B. Witherspoon

"One of the greatest ambassadors that the United States has ever sent abroad" : Wilma Rudolph, American athletic icon for the cold war and civil rights movement / Cat Ariail

Defying the cultural boycott : Arthur Ashe, the anti-apartheid activist / Damion L. Thomas

Sport is not so separate from politics : diplomatic manipulation of Germany's postwar return to the Olympic movement / Heather L. Dichter

Sport and American foreign policy during the 1960s / Thomas M. Hunt

In defense of a neoliberal America: Ronald Reagan, domestic policy, and the Soviet boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games / Bradley J. Congelio

Olympic spectacles in the next "American century" : sport and nationalism in a post-cold war world / Mark Dyreson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781610756525

1610756525

Publisher Number:

40028680874

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.