King Football: Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press

by Michael Oriard (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $54.74

  In this landmark work exploring the vibrant world of football from the 1920s through the 1950s, the author explores how the mass media shaped and were shaped by the exploding popularity of football. King Football is at once a cultural history of football and a provocative study of the power of print and broadcast media.