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Contents 6 Series Editor's Preface 10 Acknowledgments 12 Introduction. Sport and American Cold War Culture / Toby C. Rider and Kevin Witherspoon 16 Part I. The War of Words: Presenting and Contesting America through Sport 24 1. Projecting America: Sport and Early US Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960 / Toby C. Rider 26 2. Millard Lampell: From Football to the Blacklist / Dennis Gildea 42 Part II. Winning the "Right" Way: High Performance, Amateurism, and the American Moral Compass 60 3. The "Big Arms" Race: Doping and the Cold War Defense of American Exceptionalism / John T. Gleaves and Matthew P. Llewellyn 62 4. Preserving "the American Way": Gerald R. Ford, the President's Commission on Olympic Sports, and the Fight against State-Funded Sport in America / Nevada Cooke and Robert K. Barney 80 Part III. Making Men and Defining Women: Femininity, Masculinity, and the Politics of Gender 96 5. "Wolves in Skirts?": Sex Testing in Cold War Women's Sport / Lindsay Parks Pieper 98 6. America's Team: The US Women's National Basketball Team Confronts the Soviets, 1958-1969 / Kevin B. Witherspoon 112 7. To Win One for the Gipper: Football and the Fashioning of a Cold Warrior / Kate Aguilar 126 P

Author

Rider, Toby C.,Witherspoon, Kevin B.

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