Tropic of football : the long and perilous journey of Samoans to the NFL /
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Published: |
The New Press,
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Publisher Address: | New York : |
Publication Dates: | [2018] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Item Description: | Includes index. |
Carrier Form: | 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
ISBN: |
9781620973370 (hardback) : 1620973375 (hardback) |
Index Number: | GV939 |
CLC: | K837.125.47 |
Call Number: | K837.125.47/R911 |
Contents: | God's sweetest work -- The war and America come to Samoa -- Hawaiʻi : the North shore -- Al Lolotai, Charlie Ane, and Bob Apisa -- American Samoa in the 1960s -- Jesse Sapolu, Dick Tomey, and Faʻa Samoa -- Faʻa Kalifonia : Oceanside, California -- Kalifonia dreaming -- Back in Hawaiʻi : where football still matters -- David and Goliath -- The Samoan paradox. |