Public Dollars, Private Stadiums: The Battle over Building Sports StadiumsWinner of the 2004 Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award The authors provide an eye opening account of recent battles over publicly financed stadiums in some of America's largest cities. Their interviews with the key decision makers present a behind the scenes look at how and why powerful individuals and organizations foist these sports palaces on increasingly unreceptive communities. Delaney and Eckstein show that in the face of studies