Seldom is a book as ill-served by its subtitle as is David Maraniss's Rome The Olympics That Changed the World. Maraniss resolutely illuminates every long-running story that enjoyed a chapter at these summer games, and there are many: the Cold War rivalry, waged not only between the United States and the U.S.S.R. but also between their satellites and surrogates; the struggle for racial and /5(94). Seldom is a book as ill-served by its subtitle as is David Maraniss's Rome The Olympics That Changed the World. Maraniss resolutely illuminates every long-running story that enjoyed a chapter at these summer games, and there are many: the Cold War rivalry, waged not only between the United States and the U.S.S.R. but also between their satellites and surrogates; the struggle for racial and /5(). · David Maraniss: How Rome Changed the Olympics. By Newsweek Staff On 7/25/08 at PM EDT. Culture. Avery Brundage, the Crusty Chicago businessman who ran the International Olympic Committee Author: Newsweek Staff.
"Rome The Olympics That Changed the World" by David Maraniss friendships with athletes from around the world. Their performance in Rome, Igor was told, would reflect the triumph of a. But David Maraniss has come up with another claimant: the Olympics. It was, his subtitle tells us, an event "that changed the world." He never really proves his case. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Rome The Olympics That Changed the World by David Maraniss (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!
From the critically acclaimed and bestselling author David Maraniss, a groundbreaking book that weaves sports, politics, and history into a tour de force about the Rome Olympics, eighteen days. "Rome " is a masterful look at the Summer Olympics of that year, and the way that world events collided with what was going on in athletics. And there was a lot going on. Maraniss concentrates on a pair of events that dominated American interests at that time -- civil rights (domestic) and the Cold War (foreign). All Roads to Rome. Two weeks before the opening of the Rome Olympics, in the midst of one of the hottest summers of the cold war, a press counselor for the Italian embassy in Washington paid.
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