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  • Fields of Play

    Sport, Race, and Memory in the Steel City

    Collections series Regional
    Americans love sports, from neighborhood pickup basketball to the National Football League, and everything in between. While no city better demonstrates the connection between athletic games and community than Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the common association of the city’s professional sports teams with its blue-collar industrial past illustrates a white nostalgic perspective that excludes the ... En savoir plus

    $25.59 CAD

  • Fields of Play

    Sport, Race, and Memory in the Steel City

    Collections series Regional
    Americans love sports, from neighborhood pickup basketball to the National Football League, and everything in between. While no city better demonstrates the connection between athletic games and community than Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the common association of the city’s professional sports teams with its blue-collar industrial past illustrates a white nostalgic perspective that excludes the ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

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    A People's History of Self-Determination

    par Herb Boyd ...
    NAACP Image Award Finalist: "Boyd's riveting new history…turns an oft-caricatured community into a world of actual, struggling human beings."—Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and MeA Michigan Notable Books HonoreeIn this book, the author of Baldwin's Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit—in "a blend of memoir, love letter, history, ... En savoir plus

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  • Detroit

    A Biography

    par Scott Martelle ...
    At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub—and then the bottom fell out. Detroit : A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. This authoritative yet accessible narrative seeks to explain how the city ... En savoir plus

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  • People's History of Sports in the United States

    250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play

    par David Zirin ...
    Collections series New Press People's History
    From the author Robert Lipsyte calls "the best young sportswriter in America," a rollicking, rebellious, myth-busting history of sports in America that puts politics in the ring with pop cultureIn this long-waited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog Edge of Sports is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining ... En savoir plus

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  • Living for Change

    An Autobiography

    par Grace Lee Boggs ...
    No one can tell in advance what form a movement will take. Grace Lee Boggs’s fascinating autobiography traces the story of a woman who transcended class and racial boundaries to pursue her passionate belief in a better society. Now with a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley, Living for Change is a sweeping account of a legendary human rights activist whose network included Malcolm X and C. L. R. ... En savoir plus

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  • One Man's America

    The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

    par George Will ...
    In his provocative and compelling new book, America’s most widely read and most influential commentator casts his gimlet eye on our singular nation. Moving far beyond the strict confines of politics, George F. Will offers a fascinating look at the people, stories, and events–often unheralded–that make the American drama so endlessly entertaining and instructive.With Will’s signature erudition and ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $8.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

  • The Strenuous Life

    Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of the American Athlete

    par Ryan Swanson ...
    "It seemed as if Theodore Roosevelt's biographers had closed the book on his life story. But Ryan Swanson has uncovered an untold chapter" (Johnny Smith, coauthor of Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X).Crippling asthma, a frail build, and grossly myopic eyesight: these were the ailments that plagued Teddy Roosevelt as a child. In adulthood, he was diagnosed ... En savoir plus

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  • The Big Scrum

    How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football

    par John J. Miller ...
    "The story . . . has as much vigor and passion as Roosevelt himself. It's a fascinating and thoroughly American tale." — Candice Millard, New York Times–bestselling authorJohn J. Miller delivers the intriguing, never-before-told story of how Theodore Roosevelt saved American Football—a game that would become the nation's most popular sport. Miller's sweeping, novelistic retelling captures the ... En savoir plus

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  • Baseball: The New York Game

    How the National Pastime Paralleled US History

    par Anthony Morante ...
    BASEBALL The New York Game is organized as a linear narrative of facts and events that marries America's illustrious history with the rich background of baseball, our national pastime, beginning in the early nineteenth century until the present. The narrative includes many watershed moments that illustrate the importance of baseball during many crises and global conflicts, including the aftermath ... En savoir plus

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  • Boxing

    A Concise History of the Sweet Science

    Sports fans have long been fascinated with boxing and the brutal demonstration of physical and psychological conflict. Accounts of the sport appear as far back as the third millennium BC, and Greek and Roman sculptors depicted the athletic ideals of the ancient era in the form of boxers. In the present day, boxers such as Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Robinson, Oscar De La Hoya, Manny ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Power Games

    A Political History of the Olympics

    par Jules Boykoff ...
    A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic GamesThe Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt ... En savoir plus

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