This book examines major sports, both professional and intercollegiate, from baseball, football, and basketball to golf, tennis, stock car racing, and extreme sports, to explain how sports became a multibillion-dollar industry as well as a major influence on and reflection of American society. Jay also shows how sports have helped shape racial, gender, national, and class identities.
More Than Just a Game: Sports in American Life Since 1945 (Columbia Histories of Modern American Life)
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Author(s)Jay, Kathryn
PublisherColumbia University Press
ISBN / ASIN0231125356
ISBN-139780231125352
AvailabilityIn Stock.
Sales Rank518,985
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸