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Robert Elias, The Empire Strikes Out: How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad
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Rob Elias
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Tuesday Apr 6, 2010 (7:30pm)
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USF professor of law and politics Rob Elias recounts the sweeping story of how baseball has become synonymous with the American dream over the last two centuries, regularly playing part of U.S. “civilizing missions” abroad while promoting American identity and nationalism at home. Elias combines sharp political analysis and compelling baseball lore to provide a new angle on baseball’s role in the shaping of American politics and charts its relationship to foreign diplomacy from the Revolutionary era to the present day.
