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The Games: A Global History of the Olympics
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“A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book Review
A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
The Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics developed into a global colossus and highlighting how they have been buffeted by (and affected by)...
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