Something in the Air: American Passion and Defiance in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics

ISBN-13: 9781496211774 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 276 str.

Richard Hoffer

Opis

Tells the individual stories of the athletes who gathered in Mexico City in 1968, a year of dramatic upheaval around the world. Racial tensions were high on the US Olympic team, where inflamed black athletes had to choose between demands for justice, on the one hand, and loyalty to country, on the other.