The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos: Changes in Attitudes Toward Competition

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the nature of competition in contemporary American sport. Against the backdrop of athletic competition, this work traces American sport from its traditional place in American culture to the influence of the 1960s counterculture and the resulting rise of a post-Cold War ethos that continues to reinterpret competitiveness as a relic of a misbegotten past and anathema to American life.