Author : Jules Boykoff
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781784780739
Power Games by Jules Boykoff Pdf
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.