Sports in America

James Albert Michener

Random House Incorporated, 1976 - Sports & Recreation - 466 pages

The best-selling author scouts out every reach and racket of sports in the United States, assessing the uses and abuses of athletic competition, pinpointing serious problems and recommending solutions, and describing representative incidents, participants

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SPORTS IN AMERICA

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Michener's encyclopedic overview of today's sports scene is prompted by his gratitude for the lifelong enjoyment he's derived from competitive games and by the pained recognition that sports have ...

Contents

• Basic Principles: 3
• Ways of Participating: 18
• Sports and Health: 64

About the author

James A. Michener was born on February 3, 1907 in Doylestown, Pa. He earned an A.B. from Swarthmore College, an A.M. from Colorado State College of Education, and an M.A. from Harvard University. He taught for many years and was an editor for Macmillan Publishing Company. His first book, "Tales of the South Pacific," derived from Michener's service in the Pacific in World War II, won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was the basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical South Pacific, which won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Michener completed close to 40 novels. Some other epic works include "Hawaii," "Centennial," "Space," and "Caribbean." He also wrote a significant amount of nonfiction including his autobiography "The World Is My Home." Among his many other honors, James Michener received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977. He was married to Patti Koon in 1935; they divorced in 1948. He married Vange Nord in 1948 (divorced 1955) and Mari Yoriko Sabusawa in 1955 (deceased 1994). He died in 1997 in Austin, Texas.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sports in America; A Fawcett Crest book
• Author: James Albert Michener
• Publisher: Random House Incorporated, 1976
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Oct 9, 2008
• ISBN: 039440646X, 9780394406466
• Length: 466 pages
• Subjects: Sports & Recreation / History