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Dropping the torch : Jimmy Carter, the Olympic boycott, and the Cold War / Nicholas Evan Sarantakes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (340 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781139775687
  • 1139775685
  • 9781283715652
  • 1283715651
  • 9780511761805
  • 0511761805
  • 9781139778725
  • 1139778722
  • 9781139781718
  • 1139781715
  • 1316086682
  • 9781316086681
  • 1107253306
  • 9781107253308
  • 1139777203
  • 9781139777209
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dropping the torch.DDC classification:
  • 796.48 22
LOC classification:
  • GV722 1980 .S27 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: miracle on ice -- Lord Killanin and the politics of the Olympics -- Los Angeles versus Moscow -- Jimmy Carter and U.S.-Soviet relations -- The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan -- The American response -- Easy victories -- Painful losses -- The White House games -- Coca-Cola, NBC, and the defeat of the Iron Lady -- The vote in Colorado -- Civil wars -- Carter versus Killanin -- Moscow: the Olympics are the Olympics -- Los Angeles: the Olympics are the Olympics -- Conclusion -- Epilogue.
Summary: "Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War offers a diplomatic history of the 1980 Olympic boycott. Broad in its focus, it looks at events in Washington, D.C., as well as the opposition to the boycott and how this attempted embargo affected the athletic contests in Moscow. Jimmy Carter based his foreign policy on assumptions that had fundamental flaws and reflected a superficial familiarity with the Olympic movement. These basic mistakes led to a campaign that failed to meet its basic mission objectives but did manage to insult the Soviets just enough to destroy de;tente and restart the Cold War. The book also includes a military history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which provoked the boycott, and an examination of the boycott's impact four years later at the Los Angeles Olympics, where the Soviet Union retaliated with its own boycott"-- Provided by publisher
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"Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War offers a diplomatic history of the 1980 Olympic boycott. Broad in its focus, it looks at events in Washington, D.C., as well as the opposition to the boycott and how this attempted embargo affected the athletic contests in Moscow. Jimmy Carter based his foreign policy on assumptions that had fundamental flaws and reflected a superficial familiarity with the Olympic movement. These basic mistakes led to a campaign that failed to meet its basic mission objectives but did manage to insult the Soviets just enough to destroy de;tente and restart the Cold War. The book also includes a military history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which provoked the boycott, and an examination of the boycott's impact four years later at the Los Angeles Olympics, where the Soviet Union retaliated with its own boycott"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: miracle on ice -- Lord Killanin and the politics of the Olympics -- Los Angeles versus Moscow -- Jimmy Carter and U.S.-Soviet relations -- The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan -- The American response -- Easy victories -- Painful losses -- The White House games -- Coca-Cola, NBC, and the defeat of the Iron Lady -- The vote in Colorado -- Civil wars -- Carter versus Killanin -- Moscow: the Olympics are the Olympics -- Los Angeles: the Olympics are the Olympics -- Conclusion -- Epilogue.

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