The Hero Within Us

McClellan, Keith

ISBN 10: 0970882203 / ISBN 13: 9780970882202

Published by Eastern Michigan Press, 2001

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Synopsis:

Track and field is the world's oldest sport. This is the first history of the sport published since 1964. The exploits and personal stories of more than 250 track and field stars who attended high school or college in Michigan are spotlighted. Because athletes like Doug Brown, Delisa Walton, Kim Turner, Henry Carr, Quincy Watts, Rex Cowley, Vivian McKinzie and Otis Davis attended schools in Tennessee, Texas, Arizona, California, Oregon and Iowa, the book reaches into nearly every part of the nation. While The Hero Within Us tells the story of many of the nation's great track and field athletes, it also explains the values, the changes in technology, and the political influences that shaped the sport. Dominant values changed several times and the sport both influences and reflected those changes. Class exclusiveness, racial prejudice, communal values, ethnic inclusiveness, and corporate promotion and advertising, at one time or another, have had a significant influence on the develop

About the Author: Kieth McClellan studied history at the University of Northern Iowa, Williams College, and the University of Chicago. He began publishing in 1962, and is the suthor of more than 120 scholarly articles and book reviews. He has been the editor of of the Employee Assistance Quarterly since 1982. He won the 1998 Nelson Ross Award for outstanding achievement in pro-football research and historiography for The Sunday Game at the Dawn of Professional Football. He is a current contributor to the The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives- Sports Volume, Notable Contemporary African-American and Latin-American Athletes, the Historical Dictionary of African-Americans in Sport and wrote the introduction to the reissued What A Game They Played for the University of Nebraska Press. He is a member of the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) and the Professional Football Researchers Association (PFRA)

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Hero Within Us
Publisher: Eastern Michigan Press
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good