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Author:

Smith, Nicholas, author.

Title:

Kicks : the great American story of sneakers / by Nicholas Smith.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Crown Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

x, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Subject:

Sneakers--United States.
Sneakers--Social aspects--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"When the athletic shoe graduated from the beaches and croquet courts of the wealthy elite to streetwear ubiquity, its journey through the heart of American life was just getting started. In this rollicking narrative, Nicholas K. Smith carries us through the long twentieth century as sneakers became the totem of subcultures from California skateboarders to New York rappers, the cause of gang violence and riots, the heart of a global economic controversy, the lynchpin in a quest to turn big sports into big business, and the muse of high fashion. Studded with larger-than-life mavericks and unexpected visionaries--from genius rubber inventor, Charles Goodyear, to road-warrior huckster Chuck Taylor, to the feuding brothers who founded Adidas and Puma, to the track coach who changed the sport by pouring rubber in his wife's waffle iron---Kicks introduces us to the sneaker's surprisingly influential, enduring, and evolving legacy."--Amazon.com.

ISBN:

0451498119
9780451498113

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1000251158

LCCN:

2017040841

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)