Brazil's Dance With The Devil (updated Olympics Edition)

The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Struggle for Democracy

Dave Zirin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

278 Seiten

2016 | 2nd Revised edition
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
978-1-60846-589-7 (ISBN)

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The leading US commentator on the politics of sports explores the coming Olympics in Brazil.

The people of Brazil celebrated when they learned that in the space of two years their country would host the world's two largest sporting events: the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016. Now they are protesting in numbers the country hasn't seen in decades. Dave Zirin relies on fieldwork from the most dangerous corners of Rio to the halls of power in Washington, DC, exposing how sports and politics have collided in spectacular fashion. This edition has been newly updated to assess the situation in Brazil as it has changed since the 2014 World Cup.

Dave Zirin: Dave Zirin, The Nation’s sports correspondent, is the author, most recently, of Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down. Named one of UTNE Reader’s 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” Zirin is a frequent guest on MSNBC, ESPN and Democracy Now! He also hosts his own weekly Sirius XM show, Edge of Sports Radio.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.06.2016
Verlagsort	Chicago
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 215 mm
Gewicht	391 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-60846-589-6 / 1608465896
ISBN-13	978-1-60846-589-7 / 9781608465897
Zustand	Neuware