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Author:   Julie Des Jardins (Associate professor of history, Associate professor of history, Baruch College, City University of New York, Short Hills, NJ)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.748kg
ISBN:  

9780199925629

ISBN 10:   0199925623
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   29 October 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Pregame Commentary Introduction: The Forgotten Father of Football First Quarter: Adolescence Chapter 1: Survival of the Fittest in New Haven, 1860s-1880 Chapter 2: The Disillusionment of Afterlife, 1883-1888 Second Quarter: Manhood Epitomized Chapter 3: Alice and All-American-ness, 1888-1891 Chapter 4: Manifest Destiny, 1892-1894 Chapter 5: Necessary Roughness? 1893-1894 Chapter 6: Martial, Marketable, and Masculine, 1895-1899 Halftime: The Yale Man at the Turn of the Century Third Quarter: Manhood Tested Chapter 7: Camp's Boyology: The Making of Eligible Men Chapter 8: Make Men, but Do Not Break Them, 1903-1906 Chapter 9: Rewriting the Gridiron Narrative, 1906-1912 Fourth Quarter: Manhood Reconsidered Chapter 10: Realizing Real All-Americans in the 1910s Chapter 11: Changing of the Guard, 1910-1916 Chapter 12: Preparing Men for Real Battle, 1917-1918 Chapter 13: Death and Democratization, 1919-1925 Postgame Analysis Notes Selected Bibliography

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As Julie Des Jardins demonstrates in her incisive and comprehensive new biography of Camp, the modern game still bears his imprint, both on and off the field. -New Yorker This thoroughly researched biography is a major work and essential for all collections. -Library Journal, Starred Review

Author Information

Julie Des Jardins is the author of The Madame Curie Complex, Lillian Gilbreth: Redefining Domesticity, and Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory.

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