The kingdom of golf in America / Richard J. Moss.

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Moss, Richard J

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780803246805
0803246803

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Kingdom of golf in America.DDC classification:

796.3520973 23

LOC classification:

GV981 .M67 2013eb

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Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 From Nothing to Something -- ch. 2 Golf Literature -- ch. 3 Clubs and Courses -- ch. 4 Golf before the War -- ch. 5 Golf and World War I -- ch. 6 Golf's Golden Age? -- ch. 7 Golf in the 1930s -- ch. 8 Golf and World War II -- ch. 9 Hogan, Snead, and Nelson and the Rise of the Modern Touring Pro -- ch. 10 Golf Community in a New Age of Affluence -- ch. 11 Golf and the Age of Television -- ch. 12 Golf and the Two-Party System -- ch. 13 Understanding the Golf Community -- ch. 14 Against the Wind.

Summary: For golf's true enthusiasts, the game is far more-and far more complex-than a simple hobby, commodity, or slice of the sports industry. It is a physical and mental place to be, a community. It has a history, a hierarchy, laws, a language, and a literature. And in Richard J. Moss, it has a chronicler. From its beginnings in the northeastern United States in the 1880s, golf has seen its popularity, and its fortunes, wax and wane, affected by politics and economics, reflecting tensions between aristocratic and democratic impulses. The Kingdom of Golf in America traces these ups a.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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For golf's true enthusiasts, the game is far more-and far more complex-than a simple hobby, commodity, or slice of the sports industry. It is a physical and mental place to be, a community. It has a history, a hierarchy, laws, a language, and a literature. And in Richard J. Moss, it has a chronicler. From its beginnings in the northeastern United States in the 1880s, golf has seen its popularity, and its fortunes, wax and wane, affected by politics and economics, reflecting tensions between aristocratic and democratic impulses. The Kingdom of Golf in America traces these ups a.

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