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Corzine, Nathan M.

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The last pure place: Drugs, alcohol, and the paradox of the modern American game.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The last pure place: Drugs, alcohol, and the paradox of the modern American game./
Author:	Corzine, Nathan M.
Description:	418 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-06, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-06A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3449729
ISBN:	9781124573779

The last pure place: Drugs, alcohol, and the paradox of the modern American game.
Corzine, Nathan M.

The last pure place: Drugs, alcohol, and the paradox of the modern American game. - 418 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-06, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Purdue University, 2010.

This dissertation is a critical exploration of the history of post-World War II American society through the lens of Major League Baseball's decades-long struggle with drug and alcohol abuse. The history of baseball, and professional sport in a broader sense, is inextricably tied to the history of drug and alcohol abuse, and their long history together complicates not only the meaning of sport but also raises compelling questions about the conflict between enforcing ethical absolutes and protecting privacy rights, about labor- management relations, and about the tightening symbiotic link between the sports world and the television industry. Ultimately, using professional baseball as its lodestar, but addressing other American and global sports as well, this work traces the modern development of a peculiar masculine subculture and the society that it not only reflects, but also profoundly influences.

ISBN: 9781124573779Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

The last pure place: Drugs, alcohol, and the paradox of the modern American game.
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