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Author : Terri Dougherty
Release : 2009
Genre : Greece
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 962/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis 300 Heroes by : Terri Dougherty
Download or read book 300 Heroes written by Terri Dougherty. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes events before, during, and after the battle of Thermopylae, including key players, weapons, and battle tactics"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Michael K. Bohn
Release : 2009-11-30
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 129/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Heroes & Ballyhoo by : Michael K. Bohn
Download or read book Heroes & Ballyhoo written by Michael K. Bohn. This book was released on 2009-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handful of star athletes, along with their promoters and journalists, created America's sports entertainment industry during the 1920s, the Golden Age of American sports. The period had an extraordinary impact, profoundly changing individual sports, establishing the secular religion of sports and sports heroes, and helping bond disparate social and regional sectors of the country. It's when sports became a cornerstone of modern American life. Heroes and Ballyhoo profiles the ten most prominent Golden Age heroes and describes their effect on sports and society. Babe Ruth saved baseball after the Black Sox Scandal. Boxer Jack Dempsey made the “sweet science” a respectable sport. Red Grange single-handedly set professional football on a path to eventual success. Knute Rockne helped transform college football from a game to a colossal enterprise. Bobby Jones changed golf into a spectator sport, and Walter Hagen sparked the first national interest in professional golf. Bill Tilden put tennis on the front of the sports section. Tennis player Helen Wills Moody joined swimmer Gertrude Ederle in empowering women athletes. Johnny Weissmuller astonished international swimming before becoming Tarzan. The book also explores the ballyhoo artists—sportswriters, promoters, and press agents—who hyped the stars to a receptive public. Simultaneously, the spectators established themselves as the focus of popular sports. The personalities and events of the 1920s thus created today's entertainment conglomerate of heroes, promoters and advertisers, fans, arenas—and money. Sports as a profit center started with the Golden Age's heroes and PR artists, and the public's obsessive interest in sports helped shape America's emerging mass society. Heroes and Ballyhoo tells the story of what was both a symptom and a cause of modern America.
Author : Robin Lane Fox
Release : 2009-04-07
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 51X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Travelling Heroes by : Robin Lane Fox
Download or read book Travelling Heroes written by Robin Lane Fox. This book was released on 2009-04-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The myths of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. Where did the famous stories of the battles of their gods develop and spread across the world? The celebrated classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime’s knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, answering this question by pursuing it through the age of Homer. His acclaimed history explores how the intrepid seafarers of eighth-century Greece sailed around the Mediterranean, encountering strange new sights—volcanic mountains, vaporous springs, huge prehistoric bones—and weaving them into the myths of gods, monsters and heroes that would become the cornerstone of Western civilization.
Author : H.W. Wilson Company
Release : 1926
Genre : Best books
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Standard Catalog Bimonthly by : H.W. Wilson Company
Download or read book Standard Catalog Bimonthly written by H.W. Wilson Company. This book was released on 1926. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brandon R. Sanders
Release : 2000
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 060/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Heroes to Remember by : Brandon R. Sanders
Download or read book Heroes to Remember written by Brandon R. Sanders. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of men who faced incredible odds and defended our nation in the most horrible war the world has ever known. Interviews, diaries, first person accounts, and letters sent home to the front detail the heroism of those tragic days gone by.
