Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics
New York: Verso, 2016. First Edition, Second Printing. Paperback. 338pp. Octavo [21cm]. Pictoral wraps. New. Item #70810
ISBN: 9781784780722
"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." From The Publisher.
Price: $19.95