Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
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"There was a deep meaning to those late-summer days at the dawn of the sixties. Change was apparent everywhere. The world as we know it was coming into view." Rome saw the first doping scandal, the first commercially televised Summer Games, the first athlete paid for wearing a certain brand of shoes. There was increasing pressure to provide equal rights for blacks and women as they emerged from generations of discrimination. The Barnes & Noble Review Steroids, apartheid, racial strife in the United States, massive amounts of Cold War propaganda, a dead bicyclist, the rise of female athletes, creepy spies, China's distaste for Taiwan/Formosa, the powerful growth of television -- the 1960 Rome Olympics had it all.
1 All the Way to Moscow 12 All Roads to Rome 243 No Monarch Ever Held Sway 524 May the Best Man Win 705 Out of the Shadows 916 Heat 1107 Quicker Than the Eye 1258 Upside Down 1489 Track & Field News 16110 Black Thursday 176Interlude: Descending with Gratitude 20011 The Wind at Her Back 20512 Liberation 22813 The Russians Are Coming 24814 The Greatest 26115 The Last Laps 28516 New Worlds 30817 The Soft Life 32418 "Successful Completion of the Job" 34719 A Thousand Sentinels 36720 "The World Is Stirring" 380Appendix 425Acknowledgments 432Bibliography 436Sources 438Notes 440Index 461
