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  • The Sons of Westwood: John Wooden, UCLA, and the Dynasty That Changed College Basketball

    The Sons of Westwood by Smith, John Matthew;

    John Wooden, UCLA, and the Dynasty That Changed College Basketball

    Series: Sport and Society; 160;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1st Edition
    • Publisher University of Illinois Press
    • Date of Publication 16 September 2013
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9780252079733
    • Binding Paperback
    • See also 9780252037771
    • No. of pages368 pages
    • Size 235x156x18 mm
    • Weight 513 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 17 black and white photographs
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    Long description:

    For more than a decade, the UCLA dynasty defined college basketball. In twelve seasons from 1964 to 1975, John Wooden's teams won ten national titles, including seven consecutive championships. The Bruins made history by breaking numerous records, but they also rose to prominence during a turbulent age of political unrest and youthful liberation. When Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton--the most famous college basketball players of their generation--spoke out against racism, poverty, and the Vietnam War, they carved out a new role for athletes, casting their actions on and off the court in a political light.

    The Sons of Westwood tells the story of the most significant college basketball program at a pivotal period in American cultural history. It weaves together a story of sports and politics in an era of social and cultural upheaval, a time when college students and college athletes joined the civil rights movement, demonstrated against the Vietnam War, and rejected the dominant Cold War culture. This is the story of America's culture wars played out on the basketball court by some of college basketball's most famous players and its most memorable coach.

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    Table of Contents:

    Cover
    Title Page
    Copyright Page
    Contents
    Preface
    Acknowledgments
    1. Goodness! Gracious! Sakes Alive!
    2. The Wizard of Westwood
    3. The Promised Land
    4. Alone in a Crowd
    5. Everybody's All-American
    6. Woman Chasers and Hopheads
    7. The Desperate Coach
    8. The Red Menace
    9. The Rebel and the Saint
    10. Cracks in the Pyramid
    11. The Godfather
    Notes
    Index

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