The Games
A Global History of the Olympics
“A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book Review
A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year The Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics developed into a global colossus and highlighting how they have been buffeted by (and affected by) domestic and international conflicts. Along the way, Goldblatt reveals the origins of beloved Olympic traditions (winners’ medals, the torch relay, the eternal flame) and popular events (gymnastics, alpine skiing, the marathon). And he delivers memorable portraits of Olympic icons from Jesse Owens to Nadia Comaneci,…
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
David Goldblatt has been a professional photographer since 1962. His work on South Africa has been exhibited widely and is included in the permanent collections of the South African National Gallery in Cape Town, the University of South Africa, the Biblioth?que Nationale in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Goldblatt's previous publications include On the Mines, Lifetimes: Under Apartheid (both with Nadine Gordimer), Some Afrikaners Photographed, In Boksburg, and The Transported of KwaNdebele.
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