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Rome 1960: The Summer Olympics That Stirred the World Paperback - 2009

by David Maraniss

From bestselling author Maraniss comes a groundbreaking book that weaves sports, politics, and history into a tour de force about the 1960 Rome Olympics.


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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.

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  • Title Rome 1960: The Summer Olympics That Stirred the World
  • Author David Maraniss
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
  • Date 2009-07-14
  • ISBN 9781416534082 / 1416534083
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.7 x 6 x 1.6 in (22.10 x 15.24 x 4.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: Italy
  • Library of Congress subjects Cold War, Olympics - Political aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008013013
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.48

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  • Entertainment Weekly, 08/21/2009, Page 114

About the author

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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