Power Games
A Political History of the Olympics
Nonfiction, Sports, Olympics, History, World History, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, History & Theory
| 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.
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.
