Playing Tough: The World of Sports and Politics

by Roger I. Abrams

Playing Tough is an entertaining and thoroughly enlightening look at the unique and surprisingly outsized role that sports have played in politics and history. Ever since the bread and circuses of Rome, sports have been used as a tool to entertain the masses and to instill civic pride. Abrams shows both the positive and the negative ways in which sports and politics have coalesced, from the rabid nationalism of the 1936 Nazi Olympics, the political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555537537
• ISBN13: 9781555537531
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher