Making the American team : sport, culture, and the Olympic experience - Dyreson, Mark. (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1998)
1. Inventing the Sporting Republic -- 2. Athens, 1896: "See the Conquering Heroes Come" -- 3. Paris, 1900: Exhibiting American Athletic Nationalism -- 4. St. Louis, 1904: An "All-American" Olympics -- 5. The Limits of Universal Claims: How Class, Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Shaped the Sporting Republic -- 6. Athens, 1906, and London, 1908: Uncle Sam Was All Right -- 7. Stockholm, 1912: The Sporting Republic's Zenith -- 8. The Idea of a Sporting Republic: Athletic Technology, American Political Culture, and Progressive Visions of Civilization -- 9. The Decline of the Sporting Republic.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-252) and index.
Keywords: Sports -- Political aspects -- United States; Nationalism and sports -- United States; Sports -- Social aspects -- United States; Olympics -- Philosophy