Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle (Cultural Studies of the United States)

Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle (Cultural Studies of the United States)

by Alan Trachtenberg (Foreword), Michael Oriard (Author)

Synopsis

American football is a great public spectacle with an immense following. The author of this book aims to show how the press projected it: football as pastime, as the sport of gentlemen, as a science, and as a game of rules and their infringements.

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10 in stock

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 31 Aug 1998

ISBN 10: 0807847518
ISBN 13: 9780807847510