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Barnum at the end instead of the beginning of the process, unveiling a new take on the creation of the white male republic of the early nineteenth century in which sporting activities lie at the center and not the margins of economic and political history.
Curator of American Culture, Smithsonian National Museum of American History
"Kenneth Cohen does far more than simply read sporting culture as a metaphor for American politics. He interrogates how this culture emerged as a means to identify insiders and outsiders in the nation's political landscape."
Peter S. Onuf, Senior Research Fellow, Monticello, and coauthor of "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination:
"Kenneth Cohen reconstructs a lost world of sporting contests—at taverns, race tracks, and theaters—that will be strangely familiar to contemporary readers. Sports shaped political conflict, he argues, simultaneously negotiating class tensions, defining racial and gender boundaries, and justifying the concentration of wealth and power. They Will Have Their Game brings sports history into the mainstream, offering a fresh and provocative account of the origins and development of democracy in America."
Brian Luskey, West Virginia University, author of On the Make:
"Kenneth Cohen reassesses American politics and society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by using sporting culture as a lens through which to view the rise of democracy, capitalism, and cultural notions of respectability, citizenship, self-making, risk-taking, and rough play that became the cornerstones of white American manhood. Undergraduates will warm to the subject matter of They Will Have Their Game and to the historical actors whose triumphs and trials Cohen winningly chronicles."
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