| Rome 1960: The Summer Olympics That Stirred the World Contributor(s): Maraniss, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1416534083 ISBN-13: 9781416534082 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $27.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2009 Annotation: From bestselling author Maraniss comes a groundbreaking book that weaves sports, politics, and history into a tour de force about the 1960 Rome Olympics. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Olympics & Paralympics - Sports & Recreation | History |
| Dewey: 796.48 |
| LCCN: 2008013013 |
| Physical Information: 1.6" H x 6" W x 8.7" (1.10 lbs) 496 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1960's - Cultural Region - Italy - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Now in paperback, from the New York Times bestselling author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered, here is 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 of women superstars all converged to forever change the essence of the Olympics. Using the meticulous research and sweeping narrative style that have become his trademark, maraniss reveals the rich palette of character, competition, and meaning that gave rome 1960 its singular essence. |
Contributor Bio(s): Maraniss, David: - David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, and a trilogy about the 1960s--Rome 1960; Once in a Great City (winner of the RFK Book Prize); and They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lucas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History). A Good American Family is his twelfth book. |