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The Games - A Global History of the Olympics (Hardcover, Main Market Ed.)
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The Olympic Games have become the single greatest festival of a
universal and cosmopolitan humanity. Seventeen days of sporting
competition watched and followed on every continent and in every
country on the planet. Simply, the greatest show on earth. Yet when
the modern games were inaugurated in Athens in 1896, the founders
thought them a "display of manly virtue", an athletic celebration
of the kind of amateur gentleman that would rule the world. How was
such a ritual invented? Why did it prosper and how has it been so
utterly transformed? In The Games, David Goldblatt - winner of the
2015 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award - takes on a
breathtakingly ambitious search for the answers and brilliantly
unravels the complex strands of this history. Beginning with the
olympics as a sporting side show at the great Worlds Fairs of the
Belle Epoque and transformation into a global media spectacular
care of Hollywood and the Nazi party, The Games shows how sport and
the olympics been a battlefield in the global Cold War, a defining
moment for of epoch social and economic change in host cities and
countries, and a theatre of resistance for women and athletes
colour once excluded from the show. Illuminated with dazzling
vignettes from over a century of olympic completion - this
stunningly researched history captures the excitement of sporting
brilliance and the kaleidoscopic experience of the Games. It shows
us how this sporting spectacle has come to reflect the world we
hope to inhabit and the one we actually live in.
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