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Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics

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Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics

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 eventâ€™s nineteenth-century origins, through the Gamesâ€™ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workersâ€™ Games and Womenâ€™s Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.

From the Trade Paperback edition.
Country USA
Author Jules Boykoff
Binding Kindle Edition
EISBN 9781784780739
Format Kindle eBook
Label Verso
Manufacturer Verso
NumberOfPages 352
PublicationDate 2016-05-17
Publisher Verso
ReleaseDate 2016-05-17
Studio Verso

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