From the New York Times bestselling author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered, the blockbuster story of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, seventeen days that helped define the modern world.
Legendary athletes and stirring events are interwoven into a suspenseful narrative of sports and politics at the Rome games, where Cold War propaganda and spies, drugs and sex, money and television, civil rights and the rise of women superstars all converged to forever change the future of the Olympics.
Using the meticulous research and sweeping narrative style that have become his trademark, Maraniss reveals the rich palette of character, competition, and meaning that gave Rome 1960 its impactful and unique essence.
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HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Colophon
- ALSO BY DAVID MARANISS
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- A BRIEF PREFACE
- 1 All the Way to Moscow
- 2 All Roads to Rome
- 3 No Monarch Ever Held Sway
- 4 May the Best Man Win
- 5 Out of the Shadows
- 6 Heat
- 7 Quicker Than the Eye
- 8 Upside Down
- 9 Track & Field News
- 10 Black Thursday
- Interlude: Descending with Gratitude
- 11 The Wind at Her Back
- 12 Liberation
- 13 The Russians Are Coming
- 14 The Greatest
- 15 The Last Laps
- 16 New Worlds
- 17 The Soft Life
- 18 âSuccessful Completion of the Jobâ
- 19 A Thousand Sentinels
- 20 âThe World Is Stirringâ
- APPENDIX
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- SOURCES
- NOTES
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