David Maraniss | Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
Recorded Jul 10, 2008
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An associate editor at the Washington Post, David Maraniss received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1993. The author of four critically acclaimed and bestselling books, including Clemente and They Marched Into Sunlight, Maraniss’s latest book, Rome 1960, weaves a suspenseful narrative of sports and politics at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in Rome, where Cold War propaganda and spies, drugs and sex, money and television, civil rights and the rise of women superstars all converged to forever change the face of the Olympics.
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