{"product_id":"power-games-jules-boykoff-9781784780722","title":"Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics","description":"\u003cb\u003eA timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jules Boykoff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1784780723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781784780722\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d","brand":"Jules Boykoff","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46217033711871,"sku":"9781784780722","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3f28c2c2-cd6a-4f53-be54-3ad1c8ad11e7.jpg?v=1728514080","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/power-games-jules-boykoff-9781784780722","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}