Philosophy of American Sport: Toward a Quest for Virtue

by Arthur G Ogden

The growth, development, and popularity of sport in the United States of America is as dramatic and as dynamic as the growth and development of the country itself. Sport in America in its early years was a pastime of the landed gentry, the industrially wealthy and, for lack of a better phrase, the "idle rich." But it was a series of events immediately prior to and significantly after World War II which propelled sport to the multi-billion dollar industry...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611635012
• ISBN13: 9781611635010
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press LLC
• Length: 166 Pages