Nicholas Evan Sarantakes

Dropping the Torch

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Produktbeschreibung

Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War offers a diplomatic history of the 1980 Olympic boycott.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 767g
• ISBN-13: 9780521194778
• ISBN-10: 0521194776
• Artikelnr.: 31300650

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.