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During the semester, you will write a sociological analysis of any book from a list that has been provided below. Your paper should give a brief synopsis of the book, identifying its strengths and weaknesses, and discuss the sociological significance of the story. Tie your reading into course discussions. Your paper should be a minimum of four pages, double-spaced and word-processed and will be due on Friday, May 7. You may submit it early. The paper is worth 100 points toward your final grade.

Approved Book List:

PHED 271 Book Reading List – Other titles may be chosen with approval

Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball, R.A. Dickey and Wayne Coffey

Something in the Air: Passion and Defiance in the `68 Mexico City Olympics

Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby It’s Not About the Bike – Lance Armstrong

Bang the Drum Slowly, Mark Harris Inside Edge – Christine Brennan

Big Game, Small World, Alex Wolff A Savage Business, Richard Hoffer

The Long Season, Jim Brosnan Among the Thugs, Bill Buford

Life on the Run, Bill Bradley Lords of the Realm, John Helyar

The Sweet Science, A.J. Liebling In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle, Madeleine Blais

The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn The Lords of the Rings, Simson & Jennings

Ball Four, Jim Bouton Beer and Circus, Murray Sperber

Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger Little Girls in Pretty Boxes, Joan Ryan

A Season on the Brink, John Feinstein

Paper Lion, George Plimpton

The Game, Ken Dryden

A False Spring, Pat Jordan

Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer