Title The use of sports to promote the American way of life during the Cold War : cultural propaganda, 1945-1963 / Russ Crawford ; with a foreword by Benjamin G. Rader.

Publication Info.	Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2008]
	©2008

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Description	1 online resource (xix, 314 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-311) and index.
Contents	Sport and the American way of life : the American way of life and how sport served to strengthen it -- Molding America's youth : the utility of sport in raising good citizens and future cold warriors -- Chip Hilton, cold warrior : a case study of a fictional athlete who embodied all the positive values that sport and the American way were seen to promote -- Rehabilitating the American way : the NCAA and the myth of purity : when scandal threatened college basketball and football, the NCAA helped preserve the image of clean athletics as part of the American way -- Loyalty test : the opponents of sports and the Cold War : opponents of the Cold War and critics of the American way typically also denigrated the role of sport in the United States -- Opportunities gained : African-Americans and the American way of life : sport aided Black Americans enter the American main stream, and also helped cold warriors defend the nation to the non-aligned world -- Opportunities lost : women and the American way of life : Black athletes gained a role in sport, but women were sidelined -- Epilogue : Bringing it all together : I Spy : the 1965 television series brings together the themes discussed in previous chapters.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Cold War (1945-1989) (OCoLC)fst01754978
	Sports -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Sports and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Sports -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Propaganda, Anti-communist -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
	Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	National characteristics, American -- History -- 20th century.
	United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
	SPORTS & RECREATION -- Sociology of Sports.
	Sport.
	Politik.
	Lebensstil.
	Propaganda.
	United States.
	Sport.
	Leitbild.
	Nationalbewusstsein.
	Ost-West-Konflikt.
	United States.
	National characteristics, American. (OCoLC)fst01033342
	Political culture. (OCoLC)fst01069263
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	Propaganda, Anti-communist. (OCoLC)fst01078986
	Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01354981
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Sports and state. (OCoLC)fst01130564
	Sports -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst01130493
	Sports -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01130525
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	Since 1900
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Crawford, Russ. Use of sports to promote the American way of life during the Cold War. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2008 9780773450745 (DLC) 2008023965 (OCoLC)227032025
ISBN	9780773416994 (electronic bk.)
	0773416994 (electronic bk.)

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