Ski Style

"Annie Coleman has written the first cultural history of skiing in the United States, recounting how this European sport evolved into an American industry combining recreation, tourism, consumption, and wilderness - along with a solid dose of exhilaration and a dash of celebrity. She reveals how the meaning of skiing changed over the twentieth century, how sport and leisure in American came to be about status and style as much as about physical activity, and how modern consumer culture merged the mythic West with real western places." "Coleman traces skiing from its Norse roots and Alpine…