Golf and the American Country Club (Sport and Society) - Softcover

Moss, Richard J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252074130 ISBN 13: 9780252074134

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2007

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Book by Moss Richard J

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"Golf and the American Country Club is an immensely interesting history concerning a subject intrinsic to the art form of designing golf courses. The business world of golf yearns for history related to its industry, and this volume provides historic information that business people seek." -- Geoffrey S. Cornish, past president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects "Golf and The American Country Club tells us how elite, white Victorian America nurtured a game that made Tiger Woods a household name. In doing so, it provocatively offers the country club 'as part of the social capital that makes democracy possible,' despite its reputed history as a privileged, exclusive place for fat-cat Protestant white American men." -- Peter Levine, author of Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience

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In this entertaining cultural history, Moss explores the circumstances that led to the establishment of the country club as an American social institution and its inextricable connection to the ancient, imported game of golf. Moss traces the evolution of country clubs from informal groupsof golf-playing friends to \u201ccountry estates\u201d in the suburbs and eventually into public and private daily-fee courses, corporate country clubs, and gated golfing communities. The book shows how these developments reflect shifts in American values and attitudes toward health and sport, as well as changing social dynamics.

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• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0252074130
• ISBN 13: 9780252074134
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232