Power Games
| Author | : Jules Boykoff |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2016-05-17 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781784780746 |
| ISBN-13 | : 178478074X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (74X Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Power Games by : Jules Boykoff
Download or read book Power Games written by Jules Boykoff and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
