Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics

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.

• | Author: Jules Boykoff
• | Publisher: Verso Books
• | Publication Date: May 17, 2016
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781784780722
• | ISBN-10: 1784780723