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Wrestling the World The Life and Times of Rodeo Champion Jack Roddy

Katie Cooney

Wrestling the World captures Jack Roddy's contentious upbringing with a hard driving Irish father who forbade his rodeo dreams. After recounting Jack's first failed go at pro rodeo, Cooney sketches Roddy's collegiate rodeo career and how he soared to capture the 1959 National Intercollegiate Rodeo A...

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The host referenced Barthes' essay The World of Wrestling to illustrate how politics can resemble staged performance.

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There's this great essay by Roland Barthes that I always talk about, but it's called The World of Wrestling. And he talks about how they're always in character.

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The host referenced Barthes' essay The World of Wrestling to illustrate how politics can resemble staged performance.

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There's this great essay by Roland Barthes that I always talk about, but it's called The World of Wrestling. And he talks about how they're always in character.

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