The Games A Global History of the Olympics
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- 11 januari 2018
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The Olympic Games have become the single greatest festival of a universal and cosmopolitan humanity. In The Games, David Goldblatt takes on a breathtakingly ambitious search for the answers and brilliantly unravels the complex strands of this history. Illuminated with dazzling vignettes from over a century of Olympic competition, this stunningly researched history captures the excitement of sporting brilliance and the kaleidoscopic experience of the Games. `The Olympics have never really been about sport. As David Goldblatt shows in this bracingly debunking history, from the outset the Games have been a way to project a view of the world, usually based on ugly politics and bogus science . . . Goldblatt writes about this with all his usual intelligence and social insight . . . he retains a superb eye for the telling detail, especially in little tales of personal failure to set alongside the more familiar stories of heroic success.’ Guardian `Goldblatt has become arguably the premier Anglophone sports historian. Unflinching before millennia worth of material, he tells the Olympic story from the ancient Greeks to today’s festival of sponsors. This book is illuminating, erudite, fair-minded, readable, told at a cracking pace, and puts the Games in their social and political context.’ Financial Times `Elegant and ambitious.’ The Economist `A high-speed toboggan ride through history’ New Statesman
The Olympic Games have become the single greatest festival of a universal and cosmopolitan humanity. Seventeen days of sporting competition watched and followed on every continent and in every country on the planet. Simply, the greatest show on earth. Yet when the modern games were inaugurated in Athens in 1896, the founders thought them a "display of manly virtue", an athletic celebration of the kind of amateur gentleman that would rule the world. How was such a ritual invented? Why did it prosper and how has it been so utterly transformed?
In The Games, David Goldblatt - winner of the 2015 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award - takes on a breathtakingly ambitious search for the answers and brilliantly unravels the complex strands of this history. Beginning with the Olympics as a sporting side show at the great Worlds Fairs of the Belle Epoque and its transformation into a global media spectacular, care of Hollywood and the Nazi party, The Games shows how sport and the Olympics had been a battlefield during the Cold War, a defining moment for social and economic change in host cities and countries, and a theatre of resistance for women and athletes of colour once excluded from the show.
Illuminated with dazzling vignettes from over a century of Olympic competition - this stunningly researched history captures the excitement of sporting brilliance and the kaleidoscopic experience of the Games. It shows us how this sporting spectacle has come to reflect the world we hope to inhabit and the one we actually live in.
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