John Milton Hoberman

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John Milton Hoberman is American author, Professor, and Chair of the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His work focuses on sports and culture.

He is a European cultural and intellectual historian, who has interests in Sportwissenschaft and the history of racial ideas. He has published nearly one hundred sports articles and books in American newspapers and magazines and in Der Spiegel.

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  • Sport and Political Ideology (1984)
  • The Olympic Crisis: Sport, Politics, and the Moral Order (1986)
  • Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race; published in 1997 by Mariner Books,
  • Mortal Engines: the Science of Performance and the Dehumanization of Sport published by Free Press, ISBN-13: 9780029147658 ISBN: 0029147654
  • Testosterone Dreams, Publisher: Univ of California Press, 2006, ISBN: 0520248228

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