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Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports - Hardcover

Ribowsky, Mark

 
9780393080179: Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 039308017X ISBN 13: 9780393080179
Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Howard Cosell was one of the most recognizable and controversial figures in American sports history. His colorful bombast, fearless reporting, and courageous stance on civil rights soon captured the attention of listeners everywhere. No mere jock turned "pretty-boy" broadcaster, the Brooklyn-born Cosell began as a lawyer before becoming a radio commentator. "Telling it like it is," he covered nearly every major sports story for three decades, from the travails of Muhammad Ali to the tragedy at Munich. Featuring a sprawling cast of athletes such as Jackie Robinson, Sonny Liston, Don Meredith, and Joe Namath, Howard Cosell also re-creates the behind-the-scenes story of that American institution, Monday Night Football. With more than forty interviews, Mark Ribowsky presents Cosell's life as part of an American panorama, examining racism, anti-Semitism, and alcoholism, among other sensitive themes. Cosell's endless complexities are brilliantly explored in this haunting work that reveals as much about the explosive commercialization of sports as it does about a much-neglected media giant.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark Ribowsky is a New York Times acclaimed, best-selling author of fifteen books, including biographies of Tom Landry, Al Davis, Hank Williams, and most recently, In the Name of the Father: Family, Football, and the Manning Dynasty. He lives in Florida.lorida.

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Verlag
W W NORTON & CO
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
039308017X
ISBN 13 
9780393080179
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
496
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