Dropping the Torch - Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, a historian specializing in the World War II and Cold War eras, is an associate professor in the Strategy and Policy Department at the U.S. Naval War College. He has published a number of articles that have appeared in academic journals such as the English Historical Review and the Journal of Military History, military publications like Joint Forces Quarterly and the Royal United Services Institute Journal, and journalistic publications like Texas Alcalde magazine and ESPN.com. Professor Sarantakes is also the chair of the Paul Birdsall Prize in European Military and Strategic History book prize committee for the American Historical Association and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Klappentext Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War offers a diplomatic history of the 1980 Olympic boycott. Zusammenfassung Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter! the Olympic Boycott! and the Cold War offers a diplomatic history of the 1980 Olympic boycott. Broad in its focus! it looks at events in Washington! D.C.! as well as the opposition to the boycott and how this attempted embargo affected the athletic contests in Moscow. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: miracle on ice; 1. Lord Killanin and the politics of the Olympics; 2. Los Angeles versus Moscow; 3. Jimmy Carter and U.S.-Soviet relations; 4. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; 5. The American response; 6. Easy victories; 7. Painful losses; 8. The White House games; 9. Coca-Cola, NBC, and the defeat of the Iron Lady; 10. The vote in Colorado; 11. Civil wars; 12. Carter versus Killanin; 13. Moscow: the Olympics are the Olympics; 14. Los Angeles: the Olympics are the Olympics; 15. Conclusion; Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, Sarantakes Nicholas Evan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2010
• EAN: 9780521194778
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19477-8
• No. of pages: 356
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Russia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, HISTORY / United States / General, SPORTS & RECREATION / Olympics & Paralympics, International Relations, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1980 to c 1989, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Olympic and Paralympic games, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era