Dyreson, Mark,  1959- <br/><br/>
Making the American team :  sport, culture, and the Olympic experience / 
Mark Dyreson. 
 - Urbana :  University of Illinois Press,  c1998. 
 - viii, 269 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Sport and society .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-252) and index. 
<br/><br/>Inventing the sporting republic -- Athens, 1896 : "See the conquering heroes come" -- Paris, 1900 : exhibiting American athletic nationalism -- St. Louis, 1904 : an "all-American" Olympics -- The limits of universal claims : how class, gender, race, and ethnicity shaped the sporting republic -- Athens, 1906, and London, 1908 : Uncle Sam was all right -- Stockholm, 1912 : the sporting republic's zenith -- The idea of a sporting republic : athletic technology, American political culture, and progressive visions of civilization -- The decline of the sporting republic. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0252023498 (cloth : acid-free paper) 9780252023491 (cloth : acid-free paper) 0252066545 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 9780252066542 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97004663  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sports--Political aspects--United States.<br/>Nationalism and sports--United States.<br/>Sports--Social aspects--United States.<br/>Olympics--Philosophy.<br/>Sports--Aspect politique--âEtats-Unis.<br/>Nationalisme et sports--âEtats-Unis.<br/>Sports--Aspect social--âEtats-Unis.<br/>Jeux olympiques--Philosophie.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label> / .D97 1998 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>796/.0973