Power Games : A Political History of the Olympics, Paperback / softback Book

Power Games : A Political History of the Olympics Paperback / softback

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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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