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 ...
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Power Games
A Political History of the Olympics
Boykoff, Jules
Kartoniert, 208 p.,
w. 8 photo-pl.
Sprache: Englisch
21 cm
Verso (2016)
Gewicht: 448 g
ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-072-2
Titelnr.: 54445447