‘Sport Locked Down.’ My Foreword to ‘The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos … Reconsidered’, by J.N. Rosen, published by TSI Press on 1 January 2021.
This work examines American sport from its traditional roots to the influence of the 1960s-era counterculture and the rise of a post-Cold War ethos that reinterprets competition as a relic of a misbegotten past and anathema to American life. My foreword also considers how sport has been managed internationally in response to the COVID-19 virus.
The book can be purchased from Amazon using this link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Erosion-American-Sporting-Ethos-Reconsidered/dp/0983298238/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Erosion+of+the+American+Sporting+Ethos…Reconsidered&qid=1609596765&sr=8-1
The full information about the book from the publishers can be read on this link: http://transformativestudies.org/publications/tsi-press/the-erosion-of-the-american-sporting-ethos-reconsidered/
Thanks to Joel Nathan Rosen for writing a great second edition to this book and offering me the opportunity to write the foreword.