Defending the American Way of Life: Sport, Culture, and the Cold War

ISBN-13: 9781682260777 / Angielski

Toby C. Rider; Kevin B. Witherspoon; Toby C. Rider

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Introduction

1. Sport and American Cold War Culture —Toby C. Rider & Kevin Witherspoon

The War of Words: Presenting and Contesting America Through Sport

2. Projecting America: Sport and Early U.S. Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960 —Toby C. Rider

3. Millard Lampell: From Football to the Blacklist —Dennis Gildea

Winning the “Right” Way: High Performance, Amateurism, and the American Moral Compass

4. The “Big Arms” Race: Doping and the Cold War Defense of American Exceptionalism —John T. Gleaves & Matthew P. Llewellyn

5. Preserving ‘the American way’: Gerald R. Ford, the President’s Commission on Olympic Sports, and the Fight Against State-Funded Sport in America —Nevada Cooke & Robert K. Barney

Making Men and Defining Women: Femininity, Masculinity, and the Politics of Gender

6. “Wolves in Skirts?”: Sex Testing in Cold War Women’s Sport —Lindsay Parks Pieper

7. America’s Team: The U.S. Women’s National Basketball Team Confronts the Soviets, 1958-1969 —Kevin B. Witherspoon

8. To Win One for the Gipper: Football and the Fashioning of a Cold Warrior —Katelyn Aguilar

Addressing the “Achilles Heel”: Race and the Cold War at the Periphery

9.“An Outstanding Representative of America”: Mal Whitfield and America’s Black Sports Ambassadors in Africa —Kevin B. Witherspoon

10. “One of the greatest ambassadors that the United States has ever sent abroad”: Wilma Rudolph, American Athletic Icon for the Cold War and Civil Rights Movement —Cat Ariail

11. Defying the Cultural Boycott: Arthur Ashe, the Anti-apartheid Activist —Damion L. Thomas

Manipulating the Five Rings: Public Diplomacy, Statecraft, and the Olympic Games

12. Sport is Not so Separate from Politics: Diplomatic Manipulation of Germany’s Postwar Return to the Olympic Movement —Heather L. Dichter

13. Sport and American Foreign Policy During the 1960s —Thomas M. Hunt

14. In Defense of a Neoliberal America: Ronald Reagan, Domestic Policy, and the Soviet Boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games —Bradley J. Congelio

Conclusion: A Post- Cold War Perspective

15. Olympic Spectacles in the Next “American Century”: Sport and Nationalism in a Post-Cold War World —Mark Dyreson