Hearings

Hearings PDF

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare

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Published: 1970

Total Pages: 1452

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Typographical Journal

Typographical Journal PDF

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Published: 1905

Total Pages: 764

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Vols. 13- include the annual supplements "Reports of officers and proceedings of the session of the International Typographical Union."

Pigskin Nation

Pigskin Nation PDF

Author: Jesse Berrett

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2018-04-11

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0252050371

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Cast as the ultimate hardhats, football players of the 1960s seemed to personify a crewcut traditional manhood that channeled the Puritan work ethic. Yet, despite a social upheaval against such virtues, the National Football League won over all of America—and became a cultural force that recast politics in its own smashmouth image. Jesse Berrett explores pro football's new place in the zeitgeist of the 1960s and 1970s. The NFL's brilliant harnessing of the sports-media complex, combined with a nimble curation of its official line, brought different visions of the same game to both Main Street and the ivory tower. Politicians, meanwhile, spouted gridiron jargon as their handlers co-opted the NFL's gift for spectacle and mythmaking to shape a potent new politics that in essence became pro football. Governing, entertainment, news, elections, celebrity--all put aside old loyalties to pursue the mass audience captured by the NFL's alchemy of presentation, television, and high-stepping style. An invigorating appraisal of a dynamic era, Pigskin Nation reveals how pro football created the template for a future that became our present.