Power Games

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Power Games
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 9781784780746
ISBN-13 : 178478074X
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Book Synopsis Power Games by : Jules Boykoff

Book excerpt: 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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