Power Games

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Power Games

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Author: Jules Boykoff

Type: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9781784780722

Date: 27th April, 2016

Publisher: VERSO

  1. Categories

  2. Politics
  3. Specific Events And Topics
  4. Events And Management

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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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