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008			160129s2016 ilu b 001 0 eng
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020			_a9780252040238 (hardback)
020			_a9780252081699 (paperback)
020			_z9780252098451 (e-book)
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100	1		_aRider, Toby C.
245	1	0	_aCold war games : _bpropaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. foreign policy / _cToby C Rider.
263			_a1605
264		1	_aUrbana : _bUniversity of Illinois Press, _c2016.
300			_apages cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aSport and society
520			_a"The U.S. Government became increasingly alarmed by Soviet attempts to exploit the Olympic Movement in the early 1950s, and responded to this challenge aggressively. Cold War Game chronicles that response and shows that it was not a replication of the state-directed Soviet sports system, but was instigated through covert psychological warfare operations and overt propaganda distributed to the "free world." In the lead up to and during each Olympic festival throughout this period, the U.S. sent waves of propaganda material across the globe to advocate the American way of life and to denounce communism. It used the Olympic host cities as venues to advertise the American economic and political system; it also attempted to manipulate the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in clandestine ways. Cold War Games describes the emergence of government fears about communist sport in the late 1940s and, crucially, how these fears were channeled into the Olympic Games starting in 1950. It concludes its analysis in 1960 at the end point, in many ways, of covert government initiatives at Olympic festivals. Cold War Games situates sport in the larger discussion of how America was committed to a "total" Cold War by demonstrating that the Olympics Games was embroiled in the U.S. government's own cultural offensive"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
596			_a1
650		0	_aOlympics _xPolitical aspects _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aSports _xPolitical aspects _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aSports and state _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aSports _xSocial aspects _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aCold War _xSocial aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aPropaganda, Anti-communist _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aNational characteristics, American _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xForeign relations _zSoviet Union.
651		0	_aSoviet Union _xForeign relations _zUnited States.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1945-1989.
651		0	_aUnited States _xSocial conditions _y1945-
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSPORTS & RECREATION / Olympics. _2bisacsh
830		0	_aSport and society.
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