The use of sports to promote the American way of life during the Cold War cultural propaganda, 1945-1963 /
| Основен автор: | Crawford, Russ. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
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Lewiston, N.Y. :
Edwin Mellen Press,
℗♭2008.
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Use of sports to promote the American way of life during the Cold War. |
Съдържание:
- 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.