John Dizikes

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John Dizikes Ph.D. (born 1932) is a Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz who served as Cowell College provost and who is a recipient of the UCSC Alumni Association's "Distinguished Teaching Award."

Professor Dizikes is the author of a number of articles and books and won the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award. With an interest in thoroughbred horse racing, in 2000 he wrote the life story of Hall of Fame jockey Tod Sloan

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• Yankee Doodle Dandy : The Life and Times of Tod Sloan (2000)
• Opera in America : A Cultural History (1993)
• Sportsmen and Gamesmen: From the Years that Shaped American Ideas About Winning and Losing and How to Play the Game (1981)
• Britain, Roosevelt, and the New Deal: British Opinion, 1932-1938 (Modern American History) (1978)