Named as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1997 by CHOICE
S. W. Pope is an Instructor at the University of Southern Maine.
Pope has done a masterful job to give us a definitive account of the time when sports and national identity came to be connected. The clarity and specificity of his language made this book a pleasure to read. Those in the development of American sports should read this book, as should anyone curious about how the rhetoric of nationalism became dependent upon its connection to the rhetoric of athletics The International Journal of the History of Sport
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