Reveals that from colonial times to the present, sports have been central to American culture. This title includes discussion of performance-enhancing drugs; player salaries, unions, and the business of internationalizing sport; Title IX and gender in American sports; and, race.
Elliott J. Gorn is a professor of history at Brown University. He is the author of The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prizefighting in America and editor of Sports in Chicago and Muhammad Ali, the People's Champ. Warren Goldstein chairs the Department of History at the University of Hartford. He is the author of Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball.
