Nov 07 2011
New Jack Jocks: rebels, race, and the American athlete
New Jack Jocks: Rebels, race, and the American athlete
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Latrell Sprewell, Allen Iverson, John McEnroe, even Mohammed Ali and Mike Schmidt and Michael Jordan. This is the character of our national imagination, athletes who stood as symbols of our complex relationship with professional sports. In this learned and fascinating book, bestselling author Larry Platt takes us on a tour of the U.S. sports. Listing the profiles of the athletes we love (and love to hate), Platt shows that the sport more than any other nationwide pastime is how we come to unde
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