Shake Down the Thunder by Murray Sperber

Shake Down the Thunder by Murray Sperber

Sperber. . .tackles the details, great and small, unearthing a treasure. --New York Times Book Review

Shake Down the Thunder traces the history of the Notre Dame football program--which has acquired almost mythical proportions--from its humble origins in the 19th century to its status as the paragon of college sports. It presents the true story of the program's formative years, the reality behind the myths. Both social history and sports history, this book documents as never before the first half-century of Notre Dame football and relates it to the rise of big-time intercollegiate athletics, the college sports reform movement, and the corrupt sporting press of the period. Shake Down the Thunder is must reading for all Fighting Irish fans, their detractors, and any reader engaged by American cultural history.

Murray Sperber is in constant demand as a media commentator on college sports. A professor of English and American studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, his previous books include College Sports, Inc.; Onward to Victory: The Crises That Shaped College Sports (0-8050-3865-5); and Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football.

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ISBN 13	9780805018745
ISBN 10	0805018743
Titel	Shake Down the Thunder
Autor	Murray Sperber
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Henry Holt And Co
Erscheinungsjahr	1993-11-01
Seitenanzahl	634
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