Davies, Richard O.

Richard O. Davies is University Foundation Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author or editor of twelve books, including "America's Obsession: Sports and Society Since 1945" (1994), and "Main Street Blues: The Decline of Small-Town America" (1998), which was named one of the top 25 books in American History by "Choice," Although his publications range widely over the history of twentieth-century American history, he has in the past decade established himself as one of the leading scholars in the growing field of American sports history.