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“patrick b miller”

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  • Sport and the Color Line

    Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America

    Edited by Patrick B. Miller, David K. Wiggins ...
    The year 2003 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois' "Souls of Black Folk," in which he declared that "the color line" would be the problem of the twentieth century. Half a century later, Jackie Robinson would display his remarkable athletic skills in "baseball's great experiment." Now, "Sport and the Color Line" takes a look at the last century through the lens of sports and race, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Cooperstown Confidential

    Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame

    by Zev Chafets ...
    If baseball is America's national religion, then the Hall of Fame is its High Church. Being named among its 286 inductees makes you the closest thing our country has to an undisputed hero - even a secular saint. But the men in the Hall of Fame are no angels. Among their number are gamblers, drunks, race-baiters, at least one murderer, and perhaps the greatest collection of bona fide characters ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Forty Million Dollar Slaves

    The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete

    by William C. Rhoden ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An explosive and absorbing discussion of race, politics, and the history of American sports.”—EbonyFrom Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist ... Read more

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  • People's History of Sports in the United States

    250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play

    by David Zirin ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

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  • The Meaning Of Sports

    by Michael Mandelbaum ...
    In The Meaning of Sports, Michael Mandelbaum, a sports fan who is also one of the nation's preeminent foreign policy thinkers, examines America's century-long love affair with team sports. In keeping with his reputation for writing about big ideas in an illuminating and graceful way, he shows how sports respond to deep human needs; describes the ways in which baseball, football and basketball ... Read more

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  • Black Wall Street

    From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District

    by Hannibal B Johnson ...
    Early in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the "Greenwood District"- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Frequently referred to as "The Black Wall Street of America," the Greenwood District attracted pioneers from all over America who sought new opportunities and fresh challenges. Legal segregation forced blacks to do business among themselves. The Greenwood ... Read more

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  • The Heritage

    Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism

    by Howard Bryant ...
    Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today’s Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotismNamed a best book of 2018 by Library JournalIt used to be that politics and sports were as separate from one another as church and state. The ballfield was an escape from the world’s worst problems, top athletes were treated like heroes, and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Is Bill Cosby Right?

    Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?

    by Michael Eric Dyson ...
    Nothing exposed the class and generational divide in black America more starkly than Bill Cosby's now-infamous assault on the black poor when he received an NAACP award in the spring of 2004. The comedian-cum-social critic lamented the lack of parenting, poor academic performance, sexual promiscuity, and criminal behavior among what he called the "knuckleheads" of the African-American community. ... Read more

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  • No Ordinary Joe

    The Biography of Joe Paterno

    by Michael O'Brien ...
    Author Michael O'Brien authoritatively paints the consummate Paterno portrait, the result of more than ten years of work that included 137 interviews and study of 150 previously published works. Paperback includes an epilogue that reviews the 1998 season in which Paterno won his landmark 300th career victory. ... Read more

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  • Lenny, Lefty, And The Chancellor: The Len Bias Tragedy And The Search For Reform In Big-Time College Basketball

    by C. Fraser Smith ...
    Where were you on June 19, 1986? That's the day when--improbably--Len Bias, one of the greats of the college basketball game, a player seemingly destined for NBA stardom, died of a cocaine overdose. For the next several months, millions of Americans followed the continuing, unfolding tragedy at the University of Maryland at College Park. Six years later, where is big-time basketball--the big-money ... Read more

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  • The Manly Art

    Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America

    by Elliott J. Gorn ...
    "It didn't occur to me until fairly late in the work that I was writing a book about the beginnings of a national celebrity culture. By 1860, a few boxers had become heroes to working-class men, and big fights drew considerable newspaper coverage, most of it quite negative since the whole enterprise was illegal. But a generation later, toward the end of the century, the great John L. Sullivan of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Season of Saturdays

    A History of College Football in 14 Games

    by Michael Weinreb ...
    From an award-winning sports journalist and college football expert: “A beautifully written mix of memoir and reportage that tracks college ball through fourteen key games, giving depth and meaning to all” (Sports Illustrated), now with a new Afterword about the first ever College Football Playoff.Every Saturday in the fall, it happens: On college campuses, in bars, at gatherings of fervent alumni ... Read more

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