Opening with Vince Lombardi's last win as coach of the Packers in
Super Bowl II and closing with Joe Namath's Super Bowl III
guarantee, James Nicholson delivers an original portrait of a
sensational closing decade in American culture. Controversies on
the field and in the ring reflected broader political and social
turmoil in the late-sixties United States. With one of the most
contentious presidential elections in US history, the ongoing civil
rights movement, and the Vietnam War all storming in the
background, Nicholson charts a course through the oddly unsettled
waters of American sports in 1968: the Masters golf tournament
decided by the strict enforcement of an arcane rule to the
detriment of a foreign player; the winner of the Kentucky Derby
disqualified for a drug violation; Muhammad Ali waiting in sports
exile while he appealed a criminal conviction for draft evasion; an
unorthodox rendition of the national anthem at the World Series
nearly overshadowing the game it preceded; and the silent gesture
at the Mexico City Olympics made by Tommie Smith and John Carlos
that shocked the nation
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