Sports in America - Softcover

Michener, James A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449204073 ISBN 13: 9780449204078

Publisher: Fawcett, 1983

Synopsis

Sports, Social Aspects, Recreation

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"A comprehensive, controversial examination of sports as a major force in American life." Los Angeles Times
There is a crisis in American sports, and it's getting worse. Drugs, violence, and the corrupting effects of money and fame. Even before these problems made national headlines, master writer James A. Michener was growing concerned about the state of sports in America. Only Michener could tackle a subject so big and leave us amazed and apalled by what we've learned, yet still loving the games we grew up on.

About the Author:

James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home. Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fawcett
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0449204073
• ISBN 13: 9780449204078
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1