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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0451498119
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0451498113
• Author: Smith

A cultural history of sneakers, tracing the footprint of one of our most iconic fashions across sports, business, pop culture, and American identity

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.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Father of Invention

Chapter 2: Peach Baskets and Tennis Sets

Chapter 3: Johnny Basketballseed

Chapter 4: War and Brothers

Chapter 5: Builderman

Chapter 6: Swoosh

Chapter 7: Courting Style

Chapter 8: Everyone Is Doing It

Chapter 9: Meanwhile, on the West Coast

Chapter 10: Let’s Get Physical

Chapter 11: Style and Flow

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Chapter 12: His Airness

Chapter 13: Mars and Mike

Chapter 14: Battle of the Brands

Chapter 15: Sneaker Crime and Punishment

Chapter 16: I, Sneakerhead

Chapter 17: Back at It Again

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