Making the American team: sport, culture, and the Olympic experience

Inventing the sporting republic

Athens, 1896 : "See the conquering heroes come"

Paris, 1900 : exhibiting American athletic nationalism

St. Louis, 1904 : an "all-American" Olympics

The limits of universal claims : how class, gender, race, and ethnicity shaped the sporting republic

Athens, 1906, and London, 1908 : Uncle Sam was all right

Stockholm, 1912 : the sporting republic's zenith

The idea of a sporting republic : athletic technology, American political culture, and progressive visions of civilization

The decline of the sporting republic.