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The use of sports to promote the American way of life during the Cold War : cultural propaganda, 1945-1963

Title: The use of sports to promote the American way of life during the Cold War : cultural propaganda, 1945-1963 / Russ Crawford ; with a foreword by Benjamin G. Rader.
Author: Crawford, Russ.
Publication: Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2008.

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Description

xix, 314 pages; 24 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-311) and index.

Contents

Sport and the American way of life : the American way of life and how sport served to strengthen it -- Molding America's youth : the utility of sport in raising good citizens and future cold warriors -- Chip Hilton, cold warrior : a case study of a fictional athlete who embodied all the positive values that sport and the American way were seen to promote -- Rehabilitating the American way : the NCAA and the myth of purity : when scandal threatened college basketball and football, the NCAA helped preserve the image of clean athletics as part of the American way -- Loyalty test : the opponents of sports and the Cold War : opponents of the Cold War and critics of the American way typically also denigrated the role of sport in the United States -- Opportunities gained : African-Americans and the American way of life : sport aided Black Americans enter the American main stream, and also helped cold warriors defend the nation to the non-aligned world -- Opportunities lost : women and the American way of life : Black athletes gained a role in sport, but women were sidelined -- Epilogue : Bringing it all together : I Spy : the 1965 television series brings together the themes discussed in previous chapters.

ISBN

9780773450745
0773450742

LCCN

2008023965

OCLC

ocn227032025
227032025
SCSB-1479670

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library