Power Games

A Political History of the Olympics

Nonfiction, Sports, Olympics, History, World History, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, History & Theory
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Author: Jules Boykoff ISBN: 9781784780739
Publisher: Verso Books Publication: May 17, 2016
Imprint: Verso Language: English
Author: Jules Boykoff
ISBN: 9781784780739
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication: May 17, 2016
Imprint: Verso
Language: English

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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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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