Buku ini mengisahkan riwayat serta prestasi tiga puluh enam olahragawan yang patut diteladani. Para olahragawan yang berprestasi, dalam kurun waktu periode 1988-2008, ditampilkan profilnya agar menjadi inspirasi, dipelajari, dan diteladani oleh olahragawan pada periode berikutnya.
This book and others in the ADAPT Labour Studies Book-Series are intended to deal with these challenges, to make sure that youth is not wasted on the young.
The early Cold War (1947–1964) was a time of optimism in America. Flushed with confidence by the Second World War, many heralded the American Century and saw postwar affluence as proof that capitalism would solve want and poverty. Yet this period also filled people with anxiety. Beyond the specter of nuclear annihilation, the consumerism and affluence of capitalism’s success were seen as tu…