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SportsWorld - An American Dreamland (Paperback)
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SportsWorld - An American Dreamland (Paperback)
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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. Newly
introduced, 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 SuperBowl 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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