Fame to Infamy: Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace

by David C. Ogden (Editor), Joel Nathan Rosen (Editor), Roy F. Fox (Foreword by), Jack Lule (Afterword)

Overview

Essays that reveal the public slide into disrepute of once-cherished male sports icons

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781604737523
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	02/03/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

David C. Ogden, Pacific Junction, Iowa, is associate professor of communication at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is co-editor, with Joel Nathan Rosen, of Reconstructing Fame: Sport, Race, and Evolving Reputations (2008).

Joel Nathan Rosen, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is assistant professor of sociology at Moravian College. He is the author of The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos: Shifting Attitudes toward Competition.