Ski Style: Sport and Culture in the Rockies

Like a good ski run, Ski Style offers sensory pleasure and variety of terrain. Filled with insights, Coleman's book should appeal to ski bums and snow bunnies, and to historians of sport, tourism, the west, race, and gender. Bernard Mergen, author of Snow in America. A perceptive examination of skiing's influence on American culture and of culture on the sport. John Fry, President, International Skiing History Association "An original and important book presented with both skill and flare." Peggy Shaffer, author of See America First "Essential reading." E. John B. Allen, author of From Skisport to Skiing Author Biography Annie Gilbert Coleman grew up in Hanover, New Hampshire, and skied at various times for the Ford Sayre Ski Program, the Killington Freestyle Ski Team, the US Freestyle Ski Team, and the Williams College Ski Team. Her article "The Unbearable Whiteness of Skiing" in the Pacific Historical Review won the W. Turrentine Jackson Prize. She is assistant professor of history and adjunct assistant professor of American Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis....

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