Pigskin Nation How the NFL Remade American Politics 1st Edition by Jesse Berrett 0252050371 9780252050374

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ISBN 10: 0252050371 
ISBN 13: 9780252050374
Author: Jesse Berrett

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

Pigskin Nation How the NFL Remade American Politics 1st Table of contents:

Part I Making Football Important

1 No Football Fans, Just Football Intellectuals

2 Search and Destroy

3 The NFL’s Role in American History (Somebody’s Gotta Be Kidding)

Part II Making Football Political

4 The Kennedy/Lombardi School

5 A Real Coup with the Sports Fans

6 I Really Believed in the Man

7 Out of Their League

8 Right Coach, Wrong Game

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