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Product Details
Simon & Schuster Audio, July 2008
Abridged Audio Download
ISBN-10: 0743572726
ISBN-13: 9780743572729
Awards and Nominations
- CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Description
Now in paperback, from the New York Times bestselling author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered, here is 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 essence 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 singular essence.
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 essence 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 singular essence.
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"Evocative, entertaining and often suspenseful - sports history at a very high standard."
- Kirkus (starred review)
Air Force Times, September 26, 2009
...white, half were black. The 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome reflected a changing world. Despite the subtitle of David Maraniss’ new nonfiction book, “Rome 1960,” it’s hyperbolic to say the Games... The most fascinating chapter in “War ...
Cleveland Live, August 7, 2009
...his visceral narrative, powered by taut prose and braced with sturdy philosophical and psychological underpinnings, is a winner.' Rome: 1960 David Maraniss (Simon & Schuster, 423 pp.) $17 Maraniss presents a time capsule of 1960 viewed ...
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