3.5
Rome 1960
By David MaranissPublisher Description
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 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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Mary Johnson
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Megan
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“3.5⭐️ We get a little bit of sports, politics, and history in this book. This Olympics featured athletes such as Wilma Rudolph, Rafer Johnson, and Cassius Clay before he changed his name and became one of the most well known around the world. There was a lot going on at this Olympics in addition to the athletic performances: first televised Games, first Olympic doping scandal, first athlete paid for wearing a certain brand. There was a Cold War propaganda war and East/West German tensions. There were disputes over the two Chinas and blacks and women fighting for equal rights.
I listened to the audiobook, but I think it would have been better to read the book. I didn’t realize until the end that this was abridged, but this is the only audio version out there. I don’t know how much was left out, but I think it would have been better with the extra detail and information.”
diana
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“lots of details on the 1960 rome olympics. mostly talked about wilma rudolph, rafer johnson, muhammad ali, ray norton, etc. oh, and avery brundage.”
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About David Maraniss
David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, and a trilogy about the 1960s—Rome 1960; Once in a Great City (winner of the RFK Book Prize); and They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History).
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