This study examines the role of modern sports in constructing national identities and domestic and foreign policy. It focuses on the development of national... Læs mere
Stella Walsh was a Polish-American Olympic track and field icon of the 1930s. When Walsh was murdered years after her track... Læs mere
Condemned to Repeat It examines the historical myths that underwrote U.S. containment policy during the Cold... Læs mere
This book explores the Polish and East German communist parties' pursuit of conflicting national interests--rather than common socialist goals--during the height of the Cold War, and how this weakened the unity of the Soviet bloc.
This book explores the Polish and East German communist parties' pursuit of conflicting national interests--rather than common socialist goals--during the height of the Cold War, and how this weakened the unity of the Soviet bloc.
Chronicles the long and tortured history of the NCAA’s attempt to maintain the myth of amateurism and the student-athlete, along with the attendant fiction that the players’ academic achievement is the top priority of Division-I athletic programs.
Jump Shooting to a Higher Degree chronicles Sheldon Anderson’s basketball career from grade school through his years playing professionally in West Germany and communist Poland in 1987.