Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War

by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521176662
• ISBN13: 9780521176668
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"