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Author : Terry Fisher
Release : 1979
Genre : Soccer
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Book Rating : 165/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Star Spangled Soccer by : Terry Fisher
Download or read book Star Spangled Soccer written by Terry Fisher. This book was released on 1979. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G. Hopkins
Release : 2016-01-18
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 043/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Star-Spangled Soccer by : G. Hopkins
Download or read book Star-Spangled Soccer written by G. Hopkins. This book was released on 2016-01-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star-Spangled Soccer traces the development of soccer in the USA. It is the first book that tells the story of how the sport rose to extreme highs and suffered almost catastrophic lows as it fought to position itself on the American sports landscape, beginning with the announcement from FIFA in 1988 that America would host the 1994 World Cup.
Author : Ian Plenderleith
Release : 2015-09-22
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 002/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rock 'n' Roll Soccer by : Ian Plenderleith
Download or read book Rock 'n' Roll Soccer written by Ian Plenderleith. This book was released on 2015-09-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Ian Plenderleith's Rock 'n' Roll Soccer presents the raucous history of the hype and chaos surrounding the rapid rise and cataclysmic fall of the NASL. The North American Soccer League - at its peak in the late 1970s - presented soccer as performance, played by men with a bent for flair, hair and glamour. More than just Pelé and the New York Cosmos, it lured the biggest names of the world game like Johan Cruyff, Franz Beckenbauer, Eusebio, Gerd Müller and George Best to play the sport as it was meant to be played-without inhibition, to please the fans. The first complete look at the ambitious, star-studded NASL, Rock 'n' Roll Soccer reveals how this precursor to modern soccer laid the foundations for the sport's tremendous popularity in America today. Bringing to life the color and chaos of an unfairly maligned league, soccer journalist Ian Plenderleith draws from research and interviews with the men who were there to reveal the madness of its marketing, the wild expectations of businessmen and corporations hoping to make a killing out of the next big thing, and the insanity of franchises in scorching cities like Las Vegas and Hawaii. That's not to mention the league's on-running fight with FIFA as the trailblazing North American continent battled to innovate, surprise, and sell soccer to a whole new world. As entertaining and raucous as the league itself, Rock 'n' Roll Soccer recounts the hype and chaos surrounding the rapid rise and cataclysmic fall of the NASL, an enterprising and groundbreaking league that did too much right to ignore.
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Release : 2015-06
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Book Rating : 038/5 ( reviews)
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Author : Mark Clague
Release : 2022-06-14
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 398/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis O Say Can You Hear: A Cultural Biography of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by : Mark Clague
Download or read book O Say Can You Hear: A Cultural Biography of "The Star-Spangled Banner" written by Mark Clague. This book was released on 2022-06-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors' Choice The fascinating story of America’s national anthem and an examination of its powerful meaning today. Most Americans learn the tale in elementary school: During the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key witnessed the daylong bombardment of Baltimore’s Fort McHenry by British navy ships; seeing the Stars and Stripes still flying proudly at first light, he was inspired to pen his famous lyric. What Americans don’t know is the story of how this everyday “broadside ballad,” one of thousands of such topical songs that captured the events and emotions of early American life, rose to become the nation’s one and only anthem and today’s magnet for controversy. In O Say Can You Hear? Mark Clague brilliantly weaves together the stories of the song and the nation it represents. Examining the origins of both text and music, alternate lyrics and translations, and the song’s use in sports, at times of war, and for political protest, he argues that the anthem’s meaning reflects—and is reflected by—the nation’s quest to become a more perfect union. From victory song to hymn of sacrifice and vehicle for protest, the story of Key’s song is the story of America itself. Each chapter in the book explores a different facet of the anthem’s story. In one, we learn the real history behind the singing of the anthem at sporting events; in another, Clague explores Key’s complicated relationship with slavery and its repercussions today. An entire is chapter devoted to some of the most famous performances of the anthem, from Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock to Roseanne Barr at a baseball game to the iconic Whitney Houston version from the 1991 Super Bowl. At every turn, the book goes beyond the events to explore the song’s resonance and meaning. From its first lines Key’s lyric poses questions: “O say can you see?” “Does that banner yet wave?” Likewise, Clague’s O Say Can You Hear? raises important questions about the banner; what it meant in 1814, what it means to us today, and why it matters.
