Defending the American Way of Life

Toby C. Rider is assistant professor of kinesiology at California State University, Fullerton and the author of Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy. Kevin B. Witherspoon chairs the Department of History at Lander University. He is the author of Before the Eyes of the Word: Mexico and the 1968 Olympic Games.

Introduction 1. Sport and American Cold War Culture -Toby C. Rider & Kevin Witherspoon The War of Words: Presenting and Contesting America Through Sport 2. Projecting America: Sport and Early U.S. Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960 -Toby C. Rider 3. Millard Lampell: From Football to the Blacklist -Dennis Gildea Winning the "Right" Way: High Performance, Amateurism, and the American Moral Compass 4. The "Big Arms" Race: Doping and the Cold War Defense of American Exceptionalism -John T. Gleaves & Matthew P. Llewellyn 5. Preserving 'the American way': Gerald R. Ford, the President's Commission on Olympic Sports, and the Fight Against State-Funded Sport in America -Nevada Cooke & Robert K. Barney Making Men and Defining Women: Femininity, Masculinity, and the Politics of Gender 6. "Wolves in Skirts?": Sex Testing in Cold War Women's Sport -Lindsay Parks Pieper 7. America's Team: The U.S. Women's National Basketball Team Confronts the Soviets, 1958-1969 -Kevin B. Witherspoon 8. To Win One for the Gipper: Football and the Fashioning of a Cold Warrior -Katelyn Aguilar Addressing the "Achilles Heel": Race and the Cold War at the Periphery 9."An Outstanding Representative of America": Mal Whitfield and America's Black Sports Ambassadors in Africa -Kevin B. Witherspoon 10. "One of the greatest ambassadors that the United States has ever sent abroad": Wilma Rudolph, American Athletic Icon for the Cold War and Civil Rights Movement -Cat Ariail 11. Defying the Cultural Boycott: Arthur Ashe, the Anti-apartheid Activist -Damion L. Thomas Manipulating the Five Rings: Public Diplomacy, Statecraft, and the Olympic Games 12. Sport is Not so Separate from Politics: Diplomatic Manipulation of Germany's Postwar Return to the Olympic Movement -Heather L. Dichter 13. Sport and American Foreign Policy During the 1960s -Thomas M. Hunt 14. In Defense of a Neoliberal America: Ronald Reagan, Domestic Policy, and the Soviet Boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games -Bradley J. Congelio Conclusion: A Post- Cold War Perspective 15. Olympic Spectacles in the Next "American Century": Sport and Nationalism in a Post-Cold War World -Mark Dyreson

Toby Rider, Kevin Witherspoon, and their collaborators have crafted a focused, thoughtful, and illuminating set of essays that dissect sport's Cold War arena. They reveal just how intensely the US and the USSR waged the Cold War in a fifth dimension-not via military alliances, economic pacts, political doctrines, or global bodies like the IMF-but via sport. It's history at its best-explaining sport's past while showing how that past continues to affect sport today." - Rob Ruck, author of Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL