End of Amateurism in American Track and Field
"The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field is as much a page turner for track fans as it is a compelling read as a business book."--Running Times
How track and field athletes won control of their sport Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Illinois Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780252035159
- Utgivelsesår
- 2010
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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"The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field is as much a page turner for track fans as it is a compelling read as a business book."--Running Times
"Exhaustively researched. Recommended."--Choice
"Joseph M. Turrini's superb The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field helps to fill in one prominent gap in the existing literature on the subject. . . . A gem of a book."--Sport in History
"Broadly conceived and thorough in its analysis, The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field examines the power relations in track and field and shows how track athletes successfully negotiated labor issues. Joseph M. Turrini offers heretofore uncovered stories and events in track and field that help explain the inner workings of sport as social and political institutions."--David K. Wiggins, author of Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White World
"In an era in which athletes in all sports can earn fame and riches beyond most of our wildest imaginations Turrini usefully skewers the romanticized image of the amateur ideal."--Journal of Sport History
"This historical rendering of the rise and fall of amateurism in track and field reads like a novel, with the reader cheering on the athletes in their struggle to overturn the AAU and gain the freedom of athletic self-determination."--Oral History Review