![]() ![]() The world as we know it was coming into view. From the New York Times bestselling author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered, the blockbuster. There was increasing pressure to provide equal rights for blacks and women. Buy Rome 1960 by David Maraniss at Mighty Ape NZ. Fourteen nations were being born in sub-Saharan Africa. Rome 1960 : the Olympics that changed the world / David Maraniss. While East and West Germans competed as a unified team, less than a year before the Berlin Wall, there was a dispute over the two Chinas. In the heat of the Cold War, the city teemed with spies and rumors of defections, and every move was judged for propaganda value. Rome saw the first doping scandal, the first commercially televised Summer Games, the first athlete paid for wearing a certain brand. ![]() Old-boy notions of Olympic amateurism were crumbling. ![]() Along with the unforgettable characters and dramatic contests, there was a deeper meaning to those days at the dawn of the sixties. Rome 1960 : the Olympics that changed the world / David MaranissĪuthor Maraniss weaves sports, politics, and history into a tour de force about the 1960 Olympics. ![]()
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