{"product_id":"9781784780739","title":"Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics","description":"\u003cb\u003eA timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic   Games\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers’ Games and Women’s Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158089122032,"sku":"9781784780739","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781784780739_p0.jpg?v=1763726391","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781784780739","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}