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A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic GamesThe 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.
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Power Games, Jules Boykoff, Dave Zirin
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- Released
- 2016
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Power Games
- Subtitle
- A Political History of the Olympics
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jules Boykoff, Dave Zirin
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 338
- ISBN10
- 1784780723
- ISBN13
- 9781784780722
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- Historical Themes, Adventure, Music Theme, Sports, Politics, USA, Gifts for women, Gifts for men, Political Theories, Fitness, Race, Racism, Cycling, Government, Geopolitics, Olympics, Running, Political Philosophy, Political History, World Politics, Political Aspects, Paralympics
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic GamesThe 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.