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Rome 1960
The Olympics That Changed the World  
By David Maraniss
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Table of Contents
Table of 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 "Successful Completion of the Job"
19 A Thousand Sentinels
20 "The World Is Stirring"

Appendix
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Sources
Notes
Index