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  • The Kingdom of Golf in America

  • By: Richard J. Moss
  • Narrated by: Scott Carrico
  • Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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The Kingdom of Golf in America

By: Richard J. Moss
Narrated by: Scott Carrico
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Publisher's summary

For golf’s true enthusiasts, the game is far more - and far more complex - than a simple hobby, commodity, or slice of the sports industry. It is a physical and mental place to be, a community. It has a history, a hierarchy, laws, a language, and a literature. And in Richard J. Moss, it has a chronicler.

From its beginnings in the northeastern United States in the 1880s, golf has seen its popularity, and its fortunes, wax and wane, affected by politics and economics, reflecting tensions between aristocratic and democratic impulses. The Kingdom of Golf in America traces these ups and downs, ins and outs, in the growth of golf as a community. Moss describes the development of the private club and public course and the impact of wealth and the consumer culture on those who play golf and those who watch. He shows that factors like race, gender, technology, suburbanization, and the transformation of the South that shaped the nation also shaped golf. The result is a unique and uniquely entertaining work of cultural history that shows us golf as a community whose story resonates far beyond the confines of the course.

The book is published by University of Nebraska Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

“The best study we have yet of golf’s by turns snobby, democratic, and in any event surprisingly large place in the fabric of American life.” (Orin Starn, author of The Passion of Tiger Woods)

“A richly detailed and brilliantly nuanced account of the game’s social growth in America.” (James Dodson, author of Final Rounds and The Modern Age of Golf)

"Richard J. Moss's own love for the game is infectious." (Wall Street Journal)

©2013 Richard J. Moss (P)2019 Redwood Audiobooks
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History and economics of U.S. Golf explained.

Like a college lecture class on golf in America.
All about how American golf started, grew, and evolved all the way to modern times.

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Best audiobook I've gotten yet.

I loved this one, it was easy to listen to and taught me more than I thought I good absorb about golf history. High recommendation

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Objective history of American Golf

Real history, not story telling. Excellent read. Very well researched, and written. Better than the other “histories.”

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