Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics by Boykoff, Jules

Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781784780722)

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Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics by Boykoff, Jules

Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics

$19.95
Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics by Boykoff, Jules

Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Jules Boykoff
ISBN-10: 1784780723
ISBN-13: 9781784780722
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 05/17/2016
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d
By Jules Boykoff
By Jules Boykoff
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Jules Boykoff is the author of Activism and the Olympics, Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games, Landscapes of Dissent, and Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States, among others. He is a professor of politics and government at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon.

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