Power Games

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  • Power Games Book Detail

  • Author : Jules Boykoff
  • Release Date : 2016-05-17
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Genre : Sports & Recreation
  • Pages : 392
  • ISBN 13 : 1784780731
  • File Size : 28,28 MB

Power Games by Jules Boykoff PDF Summary

Book 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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