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"Golf and The American Country Club tells us how elite, white Victorian America nurtured a game that made Tiger Woods a household name. In doing so, it provocatively offers the country club 'as part of the social capital that makes democracy possible, ' despite its reputed history as a privileged, exclusive place for fat-cat Protestant white American men."
-- Peter Levine, author of Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience
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