A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play (New Press People's History)
By Dave Zirin.
Description
In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog “The Edge of Sports” is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting characters and dramatic contests and what amounts to an alternative history of the United States as seen through the games its people played. Through Zirin’s eyes, sports are never mere games, but a reflection of—and spur toward—the political conflicts that shape American society. Half a century before Jackie Robinson w...
ISBN(s)
1595581006, 9781595581006
