Sports in America
Originally published in 1976, James A. Michener's explosive, spectacular Sports in America is a prescient examination of the crisis in American sports that is still unfolding to this day. Pro basketball players are banned for narcotics use, while a Major League pitcher is arrested for smuggling drugs across the Mexican border. The NFL's injury report grows longer every Sunday. Corruption and recruiting violations plague collegiate sports as the winning is everything mentality trickles down to the Little League level. With his lifelong enthusiasm for sports in evidence, the incomparable Michener tackles this subject thoroughly and leaves us am…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8041-5139-9
- EAN: 9780804151399
- Produktnummer: 15721764
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 560 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 16'720 KB
- Abbildungen: 42 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS, TABLES
Über den Autor
James A. Michener was one of the world's most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home. Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.
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