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.
