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Shake Down the Thunder
Notre Dame (ND) is considered the paragon of college football, with a history of almost mythical proportions. This is the story of its formative years, the reality behind the myths. Beginning with the humble origins of ND football in the 19th cent., Sperber traces the evolution of the team to its status as a preeminent football power. He used Knute Rockne's voluminous private correspondence. He illuminates individuals such as Jesse Harper, Knute Rockne, George Gipp, Father John O'Hara, Elmer Layden, Frank Leahy, & Grantland Rice. Both social history & sports history, this book documents the first half century of ND football. B&W photos.
Onward to Victory
From the acclaimed author of Shake Down the Thunder, Murray Sperber's Onward to Victory is a brilliant, detailed, and engrossing work of social history for not only sports fans, but anyone interested in the development of modern American culture. With the 1940 release of the classic film Knute Rockne, All American, the myth of the hero scholar-athlete was born, and with it came the age of big-time college sports in America. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including press accounts, letters and diaries, historical papers, and interviews with many who were there, Murray Sperber recounts how the myths created by Hollywood studios were embellished and codified by a hungry press, infiltrating the collective unconscious with epic stories of players, coaches, and teams. As college sports became a mainstay of popular entertainment, they also were fertile ground for near-fatal scandal, ultimately giving rise to the modern NCAA. Sperber vividly re-creates the world of postwar America, with its all-powerful radiomen, its lurid press, its growing prosperity, and, of course, the infancy of television
Literature and Politics
A collection of poems, articles, short stories, and sections of novels revealing the political nature of literature.
The Cultural Context of Aging
From the laughing clubs of India and robotic granny minders of Japan to the "Flexsecurity" system of Denmark and the elderscapes of Florida, experts in this collection bring readers cutting-edge and future-focused approaches to our aging population worldwide. In this fourth edition of an award-winning text on the consequences of global aging, a team of expert anthropologists and other social scientists presents the issues and possible solutions as our population over age 60 rises to double that of the year 2000. Chapters describe how the consequences of global aging will influence life in the 21st century in relation to biological limits on the human life span, cultural construction of the l...
Beer and Circus
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College Sports Inc
With surprisingly new details about famous coaches and athletes and examples from basketball, football, and non-revenue sports such as swimming and soccer, this thorough investigation identifies the time bomb planted within American higher education and offers a plan for defusing it.
College Sports Inc
Discusses the myths surrounding college sports which perpetuate its abuses, and examines the new corporate form of these sports
Beer and Circus
In this fascinating book, Sperber uses original research culled from students, faculty, and administrators around the country, to argue that what universities offer instead of a meaningful undergraduate education is a meager and dangerous substitute: the party scene surrounding college sports that Sperber calls "beer and circus" and which serves to keep the students happy while tuition dollars keep rolling in. He explodes cherished myths about college sports, showing, for instance, that contrary to popular belief the money coming in to universities from sports programs never makes it to academic departments. Sperber's profound re-evaluation of college sports and higher education comes straig...
Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University
A former Big Ten university president argues that the increased commercialization of college sports endangers our universities' primary goal
