Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold
War offers a diplomatic history of the 1980 Olympic boycott. Broad
in its focus, it looks at events in Washington, D.C., as well as
the opposition to the boycott and how this attempted embargo
affected the athletic contests in Moscow. Jimmy Carter based his
foreign policy on assumptions that had fundamental flaws and
reflected a superficial familiarity with the Olympic movement.
These basic mistakes led to a campaign that failed to meet its
basic mission objectives but did manage to insult the Soviets just
enough to destroy detente and restart the Cold War. The book also
includes a military history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan,
which provoked the boycott, and an examination of the boycott's
impact four years later at the Los Angeles Olympics, where the
Soviet Union retaliated with its own boycott.
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