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.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Power Games : a Political History of the Olympics
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Verso Books
Topic: History & Theory, History, Olympics & Paralympics
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2016
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Sports & Recreation
Item Weight: 13.2 Oz
Author: Jules Boykoff
Item Length: 8.3 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
