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Cold War Games

Propaganda, The Olympics, And U.S. Foreign Policy

de Toby C Rider
idioma: inglês
Editor: University of Illinois Press, abril de 2016 ‧
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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 US 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 A (c)migrA (c) organizations bent on liberating their home countries from Soviet control. At the same time, the United States appropriated Olympic host cities to hype the American economic and political system while, behind the scenes, 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.

Cold War Games

Propaganda, The Olympics, And U.S. Foreign Policy

de Toby C Rider

Propriedade Descrição
ISBN: 9780252081699
Editor: University of Illinois Press
Data de Lançamento: abril de 2016
Idioma: Inglês
Encadernação: Capa mole
Páginas: 256
Tipo de produto: Livro
Coleção: Sport And Society
Classificação Temática: Livros em Inglês > História > História em Geral
Livros em Inglês > Outros
EAN: 9780252081699

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