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Kicks : The Great American Story of Sneakers by Nicholas Smith [Smith, Nicholas] is a business book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Kicks : The Great American Story of Sneakers about?

A cultural history of sneakers, tracing the footprint of one of our most iconic fashions across sports, business, pop culture, and American identity When the athletic shoe graduated from the beaches and croquet courts of the wealthy elite to streetwear ubiquity, its journey through the heart of American life was just getting started. In this rollicking narrative, Nicholas K. Smith carries us through the long twentieth century as sneakers became the totem of subcultures from California skateboarders to New York rappers, the cause of gang violence and riots, the heart of a global economic controversy, the lynchpin in a quest to turn big sports into big business, and the muse of high fashion. Studded with larger-than-life mavericks and unexpected visionaries--from genius rubber inventor, Charles Goodyear, to road-warrior huckster Chuck Taylor, to the feuding brothers who founded Adidas and Puma, to the track coach who changed the sport by pouring rubber in his wife's waffle iron--- Kicks introduces us to the sneaker's surprisingly influential, enduring, and evolving legacy.

Who reads Kicks : The Great American Story of Sneakers?

Author

Nicholas Smith [Smith, Nicholas]

Publisher

Crown;Archetype

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780451498137

Category

business

Subjects

History, Business, Anthropology

Rating

4.5 / 5 (97 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14