| Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics Contributor(s): Boykoff, Jules (Author), Zirin, Dave (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1784780723 ISBN-13: 9781784780722 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Olympics & Paralympics - Political Science | History & Theory - General - History | World - General |
| Dewey: 796.48 |
| LCCN: 2016002281 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.90 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |