Making the American Team
eBook - ePub

Making the American Team

Sport, Culture, and the Olympic Experience

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Making the American Team

Sport, Culture, and the Olympic Experience

About this book

Sport dominates television and the mass media. Politics and business are a-bustle with sports metaphors. Endorsements by athletes sell us products. "Home run," "slam dunk," and the rest of the vocabulary of sport color daily conversation. Even in times of crisis and emergency, the media reports the scores and highlights. 

Marky Dyreson delves into how our obsession with sport came into being with a close look at coverage of the Olympic Games between 1896 and 1912. How people reported and consumed information on the Olympics offers insight into how sport entered the heart of American culture as part of an impetus for social reform. Political leaders came to believe in the power of sport to revitalize the "republican experiment." Sport could instill a new sense of national identity that would forge a new sense of community and a healthy political order while at the same time linking America's intellectual and power elite with the experiences of the masses.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Inventing the Sporting Republic
  8. 2. Athens, 1896: ā€œSee the Conquering Heroes Comeā€
  9. 3. Paris, 1900: Exhibiting American Athletic Nationalism
  10. 4. St. Louis, 1904: An ā€œAll-Americanā€ Olympics
  11. Chapter 5. The Limits of Universal Claims: How Class, Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Shaped the Sporting Republic
  12. 6. Athens, 1906, and London, 1908: Uncle Sam Was All Right
  13. 7. Stockholm, 1912: The Sporting Republicā€™s Zenith
  14. 8. The Idea of a Sporting Republic: Athletic Technology, American Political Culture, and Progressive Visions of Civilization
  15. 9. The Decline of the Sporting Republic
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliographic Essay
  18. Index