John Milton Hoberman is an American author

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. He is a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

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 as well as the chair of the Department of Germanic Studies. His work focuses on sports and culture.
He is a European cultural and intellectual historian, who has interests in Sportwissenschaft and the history of racial ideas. He has published nearly one hundred sports articles and books in American newspapers and magazines and in Der Spiegel

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Books

• Sport and Political Ideology (1984)
• The Olympic Crisis: Sport, Politics, and the Moral Order (1986)
• Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race; published in 1997 by Mariner Books,
• Mortal Engines: the Science of Performance and the Dehumanization of Sport published by Free Press, ISBN 9780029147658 ISBN 0029147654
• Testosterone Dreams, Publisher: Univ of California Press, 2006, ISBN 0520248228