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Rome 1960

The Olympics That Changed the World

Rome 1960( )
Author: Maraniss, David
ISBN:978-1-4391-0267-1
Publication Date:Jul 2008
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Imprint:Simon & Schuster
Book Format:Ebook
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered, the blockbuster story of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, seventeen days that helped define the modern world.
Legendary athletes and stirring events are interwoven into a suspenseful narrative of sports and politics at the Rome games, where cold-war propaganda and spies, drugs and sex, money and television, civil rights and the rise...
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Maraniss, David (Author)
David Maraniss is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who chronicled the Clinton era during his time at the Washington Post.

After leaving the Washington Post, Maraniss wrote "First in His Class," a book about Clinton that won the American Society of Newspaper Editors Jesse Laventhal Prize. He has also published "The Clinton Enigma," a book interpreting the Clinton scandal.

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