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020 $a9781609611231 (hardback)
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100 1 $aAmidon, Stephen.
245 10 $aSomething like the gods :$ba cultural history of the athlete from Achilles to LeBron /$cStephen Amidon.
260 $a[Emmaus, Pa.] :$bRodale ;$a[New York] :$bDistributed to the trade by Macmillan,$cc2012.
300 $axvi, 240 p. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aBeautiful deaths -- Festivals of pain -- Fields of gold -- The rough and the fancy -- Mens sana in corpore sano -- The faith of 50 million -- Shirts vs. skins -- War by other means -- You've come a long way, baby -- Up close and personal.
520 $aNearly everyone who has watched sports has experienced the awe that an athlete's performance can inspire. Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston after knocking him to the canvas. The 1980 US Olympic hockey team defeating Cold War rival Russia during the Lake PLacid Olympics. Dwight Clark pulling down Joe Montana's pass in the end zone to win the 1982 NFC Championship. Micheal Jordan's game-winning jumper in the 1998 NBA finals. Brandi Chastain tearing off her jersey after her winning penalty kick int he 1999 Women's World Cup. What is this power that these flesh-and-blood heroes wield over the world? In Something Like the Gods, Stephen Amidon charts the athlete's story from ancient religious rituals where he competed to please the gods (and where even the winners were sometimes sacrificed) to his present incarnation as a commercial brand--from shaman to showman. Yet for all the modern athlete has come to mean beyond the playing field, it is only his performance on it that can transport us into a magical realm where we witness something beyond understanding, something pure that belongs to us at that precise moment and forever more.
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650 0 $aAthletes$xHistory.
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