Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy by Rider, Toby C.

Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy

It is the early Cold War. The Soviet Union appears to be in irresistible ascendance and moves...
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Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy by Rider, Toby C.

Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy

€56,66

Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy

€56,66
Author: Toby C. Rider
Format: Paperback
Language: English
It is the early Cold War. The Soviet Union appears to be in irresistible ascendance and moves to exploit the Olympic Games as a vehicle for promoting international communism. In response, the United States conceives a subtle, far-reaching psychological warfare campaign to blunt the Soviet advance.

Drawing on newly declassified materials and archives, Toby C. Rider chronicles how the U.S. government used the Olympics to promote democracy and its own policy aims during the tense early phase of the Cold War. Rider shows how the government, though constrained by traditions against interference in the Games, eluded detection by cooperating with private groups, including secretly funded émigré organizations bent on liberating their home countries from Soviet control. At the same time, the United States utilized Olympic host cities as launching pads for hyping the American economic and political system. Behind the scenes, meanwhile, the government attempted clandestine manipulation of the International Olympic Committee. Rider also details the campaigns that sent propaganda materials around the globe as the United States mobilized culture in general, and sports in particular, to fight the communist threat.

Deeply researched and boldly argued, Cold War Games recovers an essential chapter in Olympic and postwar history.



Author: Toby C. Rider
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 04/26/2016
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780252081699


Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2017

About the Author
Toby C. Rider is an assistant professor of kinesiology at California State University, Fullerton.


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