Allen Guttmann, Author Columbia University Press $46 (236p) ISBN 978-0-231-06400-2
Author of two fine sports histories, From Ritual to Record and The Games Must Go On, Guttmann, professor of American studies at Amherst, here tackles the questions of who views sports and why. After a feeble look at spectating in ancient Greece and...
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Allen Guttmann, Author University of North Carolina Press $0 (233p) ISBN 978-0-8078-1786-5
Guttmann, a professor of Engish and American studies at Amherst and the author of two previous books on sports, attempts ""to set sports within a larger social framework and . . . to use sports for what they reveal about the larger culture.'' Early...
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Allen Guttmann, Author University of Illinois Press $24.95 (191p) ISBN 978-0-252-01701-8
Amherst American studies professor Guttmann ( The Games Must Go On ) rejects the contention that successive boycotts of the 1980 Moscow games by the U.S. and the 1984 Los Angeles games by the then-U.S.S.R. have politicized the Olympics. Instead,...
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