Defending the American Way of Life: Sport, Culture, and the Cold War (Paperback

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EAN
9781682260760
ISBN
1682260763
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University of Arkansas Press
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University of Arkansas Press
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Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
ISBN-10
1682260763
ISBN-13
9781682260760
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13038388965

Product Key Features

Book Title
Defending the American Way of Life : Sport, Culture, and the Cold War
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, General, Sociology of Sports, Essays, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism, Olympics & Paralympics
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Sports & Recreation, History
Author
Kevin B. Witherspoon
Book Series
Sport, Culture, and Society Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
17.2 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-010578
Reviews
"This volume...makes an important contribution to a growing body of work on the cultural Cold War competition for hearts and minds. The volume will also be of interest to scholars in a number of fields, including history, political science, and cultural studies." --Jenifer Parks, The Journal of Arizona History , Autumn 2019, "The machinations of the role of sport throughout America's Cold War battles is both familiar and unexplored territory, something that this fine edited collection makes clear. With this set of probing essays, the editors Toby C. Rider and Kevin B. Witherspoon unpack many untold stories of the sports battles waged between the United States and the Society--and their many satellites--in the decades following World War II. ... The book benefits greatly from the multiple perspectives of the diverse array of writers corralled by Rider and Witherspoon, all of whom offer important and intersectional lenses with which to demonstrate why the role of sports in Cold War politics is still a vibrant and critical field for exploration, from the identity politics of race and gender to the anticommunist hysterias that saturated American life." --Amy Bass, The Journal of American History , December 2019, "As each of the essays in this volume conclusively underlines, when faced with realities that contradicted the grand narrative of exceptionalism, the American response was frequently to amend or ignore that reality in favour of one which did. The authors, many of whom are noted sports historians, build upon their own works to provide a number of robust and insightful additions that demonstrate the reciprocal relationship between sport and Cold War politics." --Thomas Ross Griffin, The International Journal of the History of Sport , May 2020, "Toby Rider, Kevin Witherspoon, and their collaborators have crafted a focused, thoughtful, and illuminating set of essays that dissect sport's Cold War arena. They reveal just how intensely the US and the USSR waged the Cold War in a fifth dimension--not via military alliances, economic pacts, political doctrines, or global bodies like the IMF--but via sport. It's history at its best--explaining sport's past while showing how that past continues to affect sport today." --Rob Ruck, author of Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
306.483
Table Of Content
Introduction 1. Sport and American Cold War Culture Toby C. Rider & Kevin Witherspoon The War of Words: Presenting and Contesting America Through Sport 2. Projecting America: Sport and Early U.S. Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960 Toby C. Rider 3. Millard Lampell: From Football to the Blacklist Dennis Gildea Winning the "Right" Way: High Performance, Amateurism, and the American Moral Compass 4. The "Big Arms" Race: Doping and the Cold War Defense of American Exceptionalism John T. Gleaves & Matthew P. Llewellyn 5. 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 Making Men and Defining Women: Femininity, Masculinity, and the Politics of Gender 6. "Wolves in Skirts?": Sex Testing in Cold War Women's Sport Lindsay Parks Pieper 7. America's Team: The U.S. Women's National Basketball Team Confronts the Soviets, 1958-1969 Kevin B. Witherspoon 8. To Win One for the Gipper: Football and the Fashioning of a Cold Warrior Katelyn Aguilar Addressing the "Achilles Heel": Race and the Cold War at the Periphery 9."An Outstanding Representative of America": Mal Whitfield and America's Black Sports Ambassadors in Africa Kevin B. Witherspoon 10. "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 11. Defying the Cultural Boycott: Arthur Ashe, the Anti-apartheid Activist Damion L. Thomas Manipulating the Five Rings: Public Diplomacy, Statecraft, and the Olympic Games 12. Sport is Not so Separate from Politics: Diplomatic Manipulation of Germany's Postwar Return to the Olympic Movement Heather L. Dichter 13. Sport and American Foreign Policy During the 1960s Thomas M. Hunt 14. In Defense of a Neoliberal America: Ronald Reagan, Domestic Policy, and the Soviet Boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games Bradley J. Congelio Conclusion: A Post- Cold War Perspective 15. Olympic Spectacles in the Next "American Century": Sport and Nationalism in a Post-Cold War World Mark Dyreson
Synopsis
The Cold War was fought in every corner of society, including in the sport and entertainment industries. In Defending the American Way of Life, leading sport historians present new perspectives on high-profile issues in this era of sport history to highlight the ways that sports influenced and were influenced by Cold War politics., Winner, 2019 NASSH Book Award, Anthology. The Cold War was fought in every corner of society, including in the sport and entertainment industries. Recognizing the importance of culture in the battle for hearts and minds, the United States, like the Soviet Union, attempted to win the favor of citizens in nonaligned states through the soft power of sport. Athletes became de facto ambassadors of US interests, their wins and losses serving as emblems of broader efforts to shield American culture--both at home and abroad--against communism. In Defending the American Way of Life , leading sport historians present new perspectives on high-profile issues in this era of sport history alongside research drawn from previously untapped archival sources to highlight the ways that sports influenced and were influenced by Cold War politics. Surveying the significance of sports in Cold War America through lenses of race, gender, diplomacy, cultural infiltration, anti-communist hysteria, doping, state intervention, and more, this collection illustrates how this conflict remains relevant to US sporting institutions, organizations, and ideologies today.
LC Classification Number
GV706.34.D43 2018

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