Power Games A Political History of the Olympics |
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| Author:
| Boykoff, Jules |
| Foreword by:
| Zirin, Dave |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78478-072-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2016 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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| Imprint: | Verso Trade |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $23.99 |
Book Description:
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A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event's nineteenth-century origins, through the Games' flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers' Games and Women's Games of the...
More Description A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games
The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event's nineteenth-century origins, through the Games' flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers' Games and Women's Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.