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Article: Sports in American Life: A History.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- March 22, 2008
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Sports in American Life: A History. By Richard O. Davies (Malden, MA: Blackwells, 2007. xxix plus 485 pp.).
This book is a strike. An experienced academic who has authored books on sports, gambling, small towns, and national culture, Richard Davies provides us with a well-written, interesting, and comprehensive view of sports in American life. Gracefully joining well-chosen analytic themes and illustrative biographies and portraits of exceptional teams, Davies puts scholarship and art on the same team. He does this while offering a narrative and an explanation why and how sports came to occupy such a central place in contemporary American experience.
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