Power Plays: Politics, Football, and Other Blood Sports
- ISBN-10
- 1604736542
- ISBN-13
- 9781604736540
- Series
- Power Plays
- Category
- Athletes
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Univ. Press of Mississippi
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- 2001-01-01
- 214 pages
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