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The Tour de France, Updated with a New Preface - A Cultural History (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
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The Tour de France, Updated with a New Preface - A Cultural History (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
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"Shows that sport has been for us moderns the ultimate "tabula
rasa" into which we pour our hopes, fears, prejudices and
self-interest."--Robert A. Nye, author of "Crime, Madness, &
Politics in Modern France" and "Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor
in Modern France"
"Chris Thompson has written an engaging, nicely-paced account of
France's world-famous cycle race: his writing is lively and full of
detail and excitement. But he has done much more than simply
narrate the story of the Tour. His book sets the race--its history,
its participants and its meaning--firmly in its shifting national
and cultural contexts. The sections dealing with professional
cycling as a form of labor and with the Tour's place in France's
troubled twentieth century are absolutely first-rate: insightful
and original. This is the best history of the Tour that we have and
are likely to have for many years, a work of scholarship that
deserves to find a broad general readership."--Tony Judt, author of
"Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945"
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