"Cultural history at its best": Gwynn Thayer's new book is out!
June 14, 2013
Congratulations to Gwynn Thayer, Associate Head and Curator of Special Collections, on the publication of Going to the Dogs: Greyhound Racing, Animal Activism, and American Popular Culture
, her new book from the University of Kansas Press. The book—which was partly researched here at NC State—is now the definitive cultural history of greyhound racing in America, charting "the sport’s meteoric rise—and equally meteoric decline—against the backdrop of changes in American culture during the last century."
A June 2013 release, it's now available on Amazon .
From an early review:
“Gwyneth Thayer’s fascinating book examines the rise and fall of organized greyhound racing against the backdrop of major themes in American history—money, power, urbanization, and shifting moral sensitivities. Remarkably objective and impeccably researched, it traces the transformation of the greyhound from rural hunting dog to working class racing dog to an icon of the animal rescue movement. Going to the Dogs is cultural history at its best.”—Hal Herzog, author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight About Animals