TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dyreson,Mark
TI  - Making the American team: sport, culture, and the Olympic experience 
SN  - 0252023498
AV  - GV706.35 
U1  - 796/.0973 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Sports
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Nationalism and sports
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Olympics
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-252) and index; 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
ER  -