Rome 1960 : the Olympics that changed the world / David Maraniss.
Author Maraniss weaves sports, politics, and history into a tour de force about the 1960 Olympics. Along with the unforgettable characters and dramatic contests, there was a deeper meaning to those days at the dawn of the sixties. Change was everywhere. Old-boy notions of Olympic amateurism were crumbling. Rome saw the first doping scandal, the first commercially televised Summer Games, the first athlete paid for wearing a certain brand. In the heat of the Cold War, the city teemed with spies and rumors of defections, and every move was judged for propaganda value. While East and West Germans competed as a unified team, less than a year before the Berlin Wall, there was a dispute over the two Chinas. Fourteen nations were being born in sub-Saharan Africa. There was increasing pressure to provide equal rights for blacks and women. The world as we know it was coming into view.--From publisher description.
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- ISBN: 9781416534075
- ISBN: 1416534075
- ISBN: 9781416534082
- ISBN: 1416534083
- Physical Description: xiii, 478 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster edition
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 436-460) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 1 All the Way to Moscow 1 -- 2 All Roads to Rome 24 -- 3 No Monarch Ever Held Sway 52 -- 4 May the Best Man Win 70 -- 5 Out of the Shadows 91 -- 6 Heat 110 -- 7 Quicker Than the Eye 125 -- 8 Upside Down 148 -- 9 Track & Field News 161 -- 10 Black Thursday 176 -- Interlude: Descending with Gratitude 200 -- 11 Wind at Her Back 205 -- 12 Liberation 228 -- 13 Russians Are Coming 248 -- 14 Greatest 261 -- 15 Last Laps 285 -- 16 New Worlds 308 -- 17 Soft Life 324 -- 18 "Successful Completion of the Job" 347 -- 19 A Thousand Sentinels 367 -- 20 "The World Is Stirring" 380.
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