{"product_id":"dyed-in-crimson-zev-eleff-9780252044946","title":"Dyed in Crimson: Football, Faith, and Remaking Harvard's America","description":"In 1926, Harvard athletic director Bill Bingham chose former Crimson All-American Arnold Horween as coach of the university's moribund football team. The pair instilled a fresh culture, one based on merit rather than social status, and in the virtues of honor and courage over mere winning. Yet their success challenged entrenched ideas about who belonged at Harvard and, by extension, who deserved to lay claim to the American dream. \u003cp\u003eZev Eleff tells the story of two immigrants' sons shaped by a vision of an America that rewarded any person of virtue. As a player, the Chicago-born Horween had led Harvard to its 1920 Rose Bowl victory. As a coach, he faced intractable opposition from powerful East Coast alumni because of his values and Midwestern, Jewish background. Eleff traces Bingham and Horween's careers as student-athletes and their campaign to wrest control of the football program from alumni. He also looks at how Horween undermined stereotypes of Jewish masculinity and dealt with the resurgent antisemitism of the 1920s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zev Eleff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252044940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252044946\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Zev Eleff","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44070626722047,"sku":"9780252044946","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f3650e85-9e38-4930-8a47-b03664f41c67.jpg?v=1685431418","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dyed-in-crimson-zev-eleff-9780252044946","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}