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Paperback Golf and the American Country Club Book

ISBN: 0252074130

ISBN13: 9780252074134

Golf and the American Country Club

(Part of the Sport and Society Series)

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Often seen as anti-egalitarian and elitist, the country club has provoked strong responses since its initial appearance in the late 1800s. Golf, another elitist identifier, was commonly dismissed as a pseudo-sport or even unmanly. Where and how had the country club and the game of golf taken root in the United States? How had the manicured order of the golf course become a cultural site that elicited both strong loyalties and harsh criticism?

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