The Whole World Was Watching: Sport in the Cold War

In the Cold War era, the confrontation between capitalism and communism played out not only in military, diplomatic, and political contexts, but also in the realm of culture-and perhaps nowhere more so than the cultural phenomenon of sports, where the symbolic capital of athletic endeavor held up a mirror to the global contest for the sympathies of citizens worldwide. The Whole World Was Watching examines Cold War rivalries through the lens...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503610187
• ISBN13: 9781503610187
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"