The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos Reconsidered

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The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos Reconsidered

Author	: Joel Nathan Rosen
File Size	: 45,5 Mb
Publisher	: Transformative Studies Institute
Language	: English
Release Date	: 01 January 2021
ISBN	: 9780983298236
Pages	: 419 pages

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This work examines American sport from its traditional roots to the influence of the 1960s-era counterculture and the rise of a post-Cold War ethos that reinterprets competition as a relic of a misbegotten past and anathema to American life.

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