Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World - Hardcover

Maraniss, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1416534075 ISBN 13: 9781416534075

Publisher: ibooks, 2008

Synopsis

An account of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome reveals the competition's unexpected influence on the modern world, in a narrative synopsis that pays tribute to such athletes as Cassius Clay and Wilma Rudolph while evaluating the roles of Cold War propaganda, civil rights, and politics. 250,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"Evocative, entertaining and often suspenseful - sports history at a very high standard." - Kirkus (starred review)

About the Author:

David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post. He is the winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for National reporting and has been a Pulitzer finalist two other times for his journalism and again for They Marched Into Sunlight, a book about Vietnam and the sixties. The author of bestselling works on Bill Clinton, Vince Lombardi, and Roberto Clemente, Maraniss is a fellow of the Society of American Historians. He and his wife, Linda, live in Washington, D.C., and Madison, Wisconsin.

About this edition

• Publisher: ibooks
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1416534075
• ISBN 13: 9781416534075
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 478