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The Kingdom of Golf in America
For golf's true enthusiasts, the game is far more--and far more complex--than a simple hobby, commodity, or...
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For golf's true enthusiasts, the game is far more--and far more complex--than a simple hobby, commodity, or slice of the sports industry. It is a physical and mental place to be, a community. It has a history, a hierarchy, laws, a language, and a literature. And in Richard J. Moss, it has a chronicler.
From its beginnings in the northeastern United States in the 1880s, golf has seen its popularity, and its fortunes, wax and wane, affected by politics and economics, reflecting tensions between aristocratic and democratic impulses. The Kingdom of Golf in America traces these ups and downs, ins and outs, in the growth of golf as a community. Moss describes the development of the private club and public course and the impact of wealth and the consumer culture on those who play golf and those who watch. He shows that factors like race, gender, technology, suburbanization, and the transformation of the South that shaped the nation also shaped golf. The result is a unique, and uniquely entertaining, work of cultural history that shows us golf as a community whose story resonates far beyond the confines of the course.
Purchase the audio edition.Author: Richard J. Moss
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 06/01/2013
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.45w x 1.25d
ISBN: 9780803244825
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2013 pg. 86
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2013
About the Author
Richard J. Moss is John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History (emeritus) at Colby College and the author of Golf and the American Country Club and Eden in the Pines: A History of Pinehurst Village.
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