Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Inventing the Sporting Republic

2. Athens, 1896: "See the Conquering Heroes Come"

3. Paris, 1900: Exhibiting American Athletic Nationalism

4. St. Louis, 1904: An "All-American" Olympics

5. The Limits of Universal Claims: How Class, Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Shaped the Sporting Republic

6. Athens, 1906, and London, 1908: Uncle Sam Was All Right

7. Stockholm, 1912: The Sporting Republic's Zenith

8. The Idea of a Sporting Republic: Athletic Technology, American Political Culture, and Progressive Visions of Civilization

9. The Decline of the Sporting Republic

Notes

Bibliographic Essay

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