The Hero Within Us - Softcover

 
9780970882202: The Hero Within Us
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0970882203 ISBN 13: 9780970882202

Inhaltsangabe

Track and field is the world's oldest sport. This is the first history of the sport published since 1964. The exploits and personal stories of more than 250 track and field stars who attended high school or college in Michigan are spotlighted. Because athletes like Doug Brown, Delisa Walton, Kim Turner, Henry Carr, Quincy Watts, Rex Cowley, Vivian McKinzie and Otis Davis attended schools in Tennessee, Texas, Arizona, California, Oregon and Iowa, the book reaches into nearly every part of the nation.

While The Hero Within Us tells the story of many of the nation's great track and field athletes, it also explains the values, the changes in technology, and the political influences that shaped the sport. Dominant values changed several times and the sport both influences and reflected those changes. Class exclusiveness, racial prejudice, communal values, ethnic inclusiveness, and corporate promotion and advertising, at one time or another, have had a significant influence on the development of track. This book identifies the consequences of those influences.

The narrative draws on primary sources and interview with Michigan athletes to preserve and understand Michigan's role in track history and to explore the interaction between sport and history.

This book contains 668 pages of text including forty-six photographs. There are also footnotes, an index, and an appendix that lists the state's one hundred best male and forty-five most notable female track and field athletes; Michigan's track and field Olympians and World and record holders.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kieth McClellan studied history at the University of Northern Iowa, Williams College, and the University of Chicago. He began publishing in 1962, and is the suthor of more than 120 scholarly articles and book reviews. He has been the editor of of the Employee Assistance Quarterly since 1982. He won the 1998 Nelson Ross Award for outstanding achievement in pro-football research and historiography for The Sunday Game at the Dawn of Professional Football. He is a current contributor to the The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives- Sports Volume, Notable Contemporary African-American and Latin-American Athletes, the Historical Dictionary of African-Americans in Sport and wrote the introduction to the reissued What A Game They Played for the University of Nebraska Press. He is a member of the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) and the Professional Football Researchers Association (PFRA)

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A balanced view of Michigan's role in the international sport that features running, jumping, and trhowing. I am particularly impressed by the book's insight into the contribution of Detroit's African-Americans to that History George Gaines, former Wayne University middle-distance runner

McClellan has tow wonderful chapters on the struggles and triumphs of women's track and field. Women's track has had such a positive impact on women's sports that it is nice to see its history in print.

Keela Yount, former runner and Women't Track coach at Central Michigan University.

Someone has finally given Michigan race walking its due. Gary Morgan, Olympian: National USA Track and Field representative from Michigan

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Englisch
ISBN 10 
0970882203
ISBN 13 
9780970882202
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