Power games : a political history of the Olympics /
"The Olympics have not always been the commercialized juggernaut we know today, but as Jules Boykoff makes clear in this story-filled and devastating history, the Games have since their inception had a thoroughly checkered political history. Pierre de Coubertin, the aristocrat who gave birth to...
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: |
Boykoff, Jules
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Format: | Book
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Language: | English |
Published: |
London ; Brooklyn, NY :
Verso,
2016.
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