Cold War Games: Propaganda, the Olympics, and U.S. Foreign Policy (Sport and Society)
by Toby C Rider
Cold War Games explores the intersection of propaganda, the Olympic Games, and U.S. foreign policy. Toby C. Rider presents sport as an important arena of Cold War politics, showing how international competition and public messaging could connect athletic events with diplomacy, national interests, and global influence.
About This Book
Cold War Games examines the relationship between propaganda, the Olympic Games, and U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War.
The book explores sport as a space where international politics, public messaging, and national interests converged.
It considers how Olympic competition could serve purposes extending beyond athletics, linking sporting events with broader questions of diplomacy and influence.
Written by Toby C. Rider, this volume places the politics of sport within the wider history of the Cold War.
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