Dyreson, Mark. <br/><br/>
Making the American team :  sport, culture, and the Olympic experience / 
Mark Dyreson. 
 - Urbana :  University of Illinois Press,  c1998. 
 - viii, 269 p. ;  23 cm. 
 - Sport and society .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-252) and index. 
<br/><br/>1. Inventing the Sporting Republic -- 2. Athens, 1896: "See the Conquering Heroes Come" -- 3. Paris, 1900: Exhibiting American Athletic Nationalism -- 4. St. Louis, 1904: An "All-American" Olympics -- 5. The Limits of Universal Claims: How Class, Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Shaped the Sporting Republic -- 6. Athens, 1906, and London, 1908: Uncle Sam Was All Right -- 7. Stockholm, 1912: The Sporting Republic's Zenith -- 8. The Idea of a Sporting Republic: Athletic Technology, American Political Culture, and Progressive Visions of Civilization -- 9. The Decline of the Sporting Republic. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0252023498 0252066545 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sports--Political aspects--United States<br/>Nationalism and sports--United States<br/>Sports--Social aspects--United States<br/>Olympics--Philosophy
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV706.35 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>796/.0973