Introduction
1. Sport and American Cold War Culture
Toby C. Rider & Kevin Witherspoon
The War of Words: Presenting and Contesting America Through Sport
2. Projecting America: Sport and Early U.S. Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960
Toby C. Rider
3. Millard Lampell: From Football to the Blacklist
Dennis Gildea
Winning the “Right” Way: High Performance, Amateurism, and the American Moral Compass
4. The “Big Arms” Race: Doping and the Cold War Defense of American Exceptionalism
John T. Gleaves & Matthew P. Llewellyn
5. Preserving ‘the American way’: Gerald R. Ford, the President’s Commission on Olympic Sports, and the Fight Against State-Funded Sport in America
Nevada Cooke & Robert K. Barney
Making Men and Defining Women: Femininity, Masculinity, and the Politics of Gender
6. “Wolves in Skirts?”: Sex Testing in Cold War Women’s Sport
Lindsay Parks Pieper
7. America’s Team: The U.S. Women’s National Basketball Team Confronts the Soviets, 1958-1969
Kevin B. Witherspoon
8. To Win One for the Gipper: Football and the Fashioning of a Cold Warrior
Katelyn Aguilar
Addressing the “Achilles Heel”: Race and the Cold War at the Periphery
9.“An Outstanding Representative of America”: Mal Whitfield and America’s Black Sports Ambassadors in Africa
Kevin B. Witherspoon
10. “One of the greatest ambassadors that the United States has ever sent abroad”: Wilma Rudolph, American Athletic Icon for the Cold War and Civil Rights Movement
Cat Ariail
11. Defying the Cultural Boycott: Arthur Ashe, the Anti-apartheid Activist
Damion L. Thomas
Manipulating the Five Rings: Public Diplomacy, Statecraft, and the Olympic Games
12. Sport is Not so Separate from Politics: Diplomatic Manipulation of Germany’s Postwar Return to the Olympic Movement
Heather L. Dichter
13. Sport and American Foreign Policy During the 1960s
Thomas M. Hunt
14. In Defense of a Neoliberal America: Ronald Reagan, Domestic Policy, and the Soviet Boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games
Bradley J. Congelio
Conclusion: A Post- Cold War Perspective
15. Olympic Spectacles in the Next “American Century”: Sport and Nationalism in a Post-Cold War World
Mark Dyreson