The Real all Americans : : the Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation
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The real field -- Pratt -- Fort Marion : first lessons -- Carlisle -- The last fight and first games -- Cheats and swindles -- Not a parlor game -- Dodges and deceptions -- Experiments in flight -- Advances and retreats -- The real all Americans.
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Wow! submitted by slugwhisperer on July 12, 2013, 8:09pm Never thought about the early history of the game until I read the book. Now I'm intrigued.
Made me (a non-sports person) care
submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on July 8, 2014, 8:07am
Recommended by a friend who cares about justice and about sports, this book is another in my "I'll read anything about anything as long as it's well written" series. It's the story of the Carlisle Indian School, a government-run cultural brainwashing program in the days when "the West was won" and Indians were being forced onto reservations. It's also about the invention, creation, and innovation that was football.
And who'd'a thunk it? It made me care! This was well researched, well written, fascinating, and I learned a ton. Occasionally, for me who knows next to nothing about sports history, it was a bit heavy with name-dropping. On the other hand, it was the author's ability to combine history with personal stories that drove the book.
If you're looking for something out of your usual range, you would do well to consider this.
PUBLISHED
New York : Doubleday, c2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: 343 p. : b&w photos. ; cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780385519878
0385519877
SUBJECTS
United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) -- Football.