2005: Steel Chair to the Head
Edited by Nicholas Hammond, (Duke University Press)
"Steel Chair to the Head was the must-read wrestling book of 2005 because it blends academic rigor with authentic insider perspectives, offering an unprecedented, multi-disciplinary exploration of professional wrestling as both cultural spectacle and mirror of American society. Academic explorations of the sport would become more common in later years, but this earlier effort — featuring one particularly great entry from Sharon Mazer — set the standard by which all subsequent volumes would be judged." - Oliver Lee Bateman