Description
| Product ID: | 9781784780722 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Power Games |
| Subtitle: | A Political History of the Olympics |
| Authors: | Author: Jules Boykoff |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Olympic and Paralympic games, Olympic & Paralympic games, History of sport, History of sport |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
| Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-05-17 |
