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Informationen zum Autor Mark Dyreson is an associate professor of kinesiology and history at Pennsylvania State University and is also President of the North American Society for Sport History. Zusammenfassung The United States uses the Olympic Games to construct and contest its national image. For more than a century the Olympics have served the U.S. as a site for erecting memorials to American patriotism and developing mythologies of American exceptionalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Prologue: Crafting Patriotism - America at the Olympic Games 2 'This Flag Dips for No Earthly King': The Mysterious Origins of an American Myth 3 'To Dip or Not to Dip': The American Flag at the Olympic Games Since 1936 4 'America's Athletic Missionaries': Political Performance, Olympic Spectacle and the Quest for an American National Culture, 1896-1912 5 Return to the Melting Pot: An Old American Olympic Story 6 Prolegomena to Jesse Owens: American Ideas About Race and Olympic Races from the 1890s to the 1920s 7 American Ideas About Race and Olympic Races in the Era of Jesse Owens: Shattering Myths or Reinforcing Scientific Racism? 8 Johnny Weissmuller and the Old Global Capitalism: The Origins of the Federal Blueprint for Selling American Culture to the World 9 Marketing Weissmuller to the World: Hollywood's Olympics and Federal Schemes for Americanization through Sport 10 Epilogue: Crafting Patriotism - Meditations on 'Californication' and Other Trends
