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Article: The American Country Club: Its Origins and Development
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- Business History Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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CopyrightCopyright Harvard Business School, Soldiers Field Spring 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The American Country Club: Its Origins and Development. By James M. Mayo New Brunswick, N.J,: Rutgers University Press, 1998. xi + 245 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, and index. $25.00. ISBN 0813524857.
Reviewed by John A. Jakle
The country club looms large in America as a context for social networking, and, accordingly, as a place to sustain connections in business. Configured largely around golf courses, and thus the game of golf itself, the American country club helps sustain many of the competitive instincts thought necessary to business success. More importantly, the country club symbolizes success by providing an ecology for elite belonging. Held at a distance are the mundane ...