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List Price: $27.95Amazon.com's Price: $15.31 You Save: $12.64 (45%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.48
EAN: 9780393058840
ISBN: 0393058840
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: April 16, 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Sales Rank: 180389
Studio: W. W. Norton
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Athletics and politics collide in a critical event for Nazi Germany and the contemporary world.
The torch relay—that staple of Olympic pageantry—first opened the summer games in 1936 in Berlin. Proposed by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, the relay was to carry the symbolism of a new Germany across its route through southeastern and central Europe. Soon after the Wehrmacht would march in jackboots over the same terrain.
The Olympic festival was a crucial part of the Nazi regime's mobilization of power. Nazi Games offers a superb blend of history and sport. The narrative includes a stirring account of the international effort to boycott the games, derailed finally by the American Olympic Committee and the determination of its head, Avery Brundage, to participate. Nazi Games also recounts the dazzling athletic feats of these Olympics, including Jesse Owens's four gold-medal performances and the marathon victory of Korean runner Kitei Son, the Rising Sun of imperial Japan on his bib. 25 b/w photographs.
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Historian David Clay Large has provided a brilliant overview of the carefully orchestrated machinations that went into producing the 1936 Berlin Olympics, a propaganda event meant to affirm the dominance of the so-called "master-race." Tracing out the development and planning of the 1936 games as well as the Olympic movement itself, Large leaves few stones unturned as he probes the way the Nazis twisted the symbolism of international sport to recast themselves as the modern embodiment of the ideals ... Read More
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While the author's prose is often too colloquial for my taste, his well organized, expertly researched account of the 1936 Berlin games is both interesting reading and valuable historical reference. He also provides a very good history of the modern Olympics leading up to the titled games and consequently gives the reader a valuable perspective from which to examine those that followed...including/especially the upcoming Beijing Olympics.
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David Clay large has written a terrific book about the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He traces the history of the modern Olympics before and after Berlin, skillfully describes the failed effort to boycott the games, and presents a lively retelling of the games themselves. But it is the story of the political intrigues surrounding the competition that makes the book worth reading. With the 2008 Beijing Olympics fast approaching, this book will show how totalitarian states will pull out all the stops to host ... Read More
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The Beijing Olympics are following the 1936 Germany approach to world peace and both are controversial and ill-timed. Germany's took place before the world knew of the concentration camps and killing of the Jewish race from different countries. This year's bad timing has to do after China took over Tibet and killed some of the monks. The nuns were traveling America to let us know what was going on. Therefore, no matter how Berlin came out smelling like a mum, we now have media and protesters to keep ... Read More
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This fine book is a comprehensive look at the 1936 Olympic Games. The book includes not only a well-done, and even myth-exploding, recounting of the standard stories of these Games, i.e., the summer Olympics in Berlin, but also contains an interesting review of the history of the modern Olympics leading up to the '36 Games, as well as an examination of the back-door politics over threatened boycotts of these Games, a look at the 1936 Winter Olympics (also held in Germany), and a dissection of Leni Riefenstahl's ... Read More
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