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"""A thoroughly researched, and clearly written history set during a time when Americans were creating all sorts of memorials, including memorial football stadiums, hospitals, and various other structures of a public or quasi-public nature, to reinforce the established social order.""--Brian Ingrassia, author of The Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Education's Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football ""A fascinating study of historical memory and a terrific history of sport and youth culture in Boston.""--Joel Wolfe, author of the forthcoming The American Game: Gridiron Football and the Making of a Modern Nation"

"""A thoroughly researched history set during a time when Americans created all kinds of memorials--especially for famous sporting events--to create a usable past that mythologized the nation while also reinforcing the established social order.""--Brian Ingrassia, author of The Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Education's Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football ""A fascinating study of historical memory and a terrific history of sport and youth culture in Boston.""--Joel Wolfe, author of the forthcoming The American Game: Gridiron Football and the Making of a Modern Nation"

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Kevin Tallec Marston is Research Fellow at CIES (Centre International d'Etude du Sport / International Center for Sports Studies) and Visiting Researcher and Lecturer at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University. His writings on sports have appeared in edited collections and journals such as Contemporary European History and the International Sports Law Journal. Mike Cronin is Academic Director, Centre for Irish Programmes at Boston College, Dublin. His publications include Sport: A Very Short Introduction.

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