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- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Series Statement
- Terry and Jan Todd series on physical culture and sports
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction (note)
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Introduction. The game behind the Games -- Part I. The bidders. The origins of Olympic dreams -- Growth crusaders -- Faking an Olympic city -- A mass soft sell -- Part II. The opponents. Post-civil rights advocacy in the city -- Middle-class environmentalism in the foothills -- A liberal tax revolt and the public relations battle -- Direct democracy for middle America -- Part III. The fate and legacy of Denver 1976 -- The DOCS credibility and the rhetoric of Olympism -- The event coalition and the rights of citizenship -- The momentum of the moment -- Epilogue. The games go on.
- ISBN
- 9781477326466 (electronic bk.)
- 1477326464 (electronic bk.)
- OCLC
- ebd2119406260
- Author
Berg, Adam, author.
- Title
The Olympics that never happened : Denver \'76 and the politics of growth / Adam Berg.
- Publisher
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2023.
- Edition
First edition.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
Terry and Jan Todd series on physical culture and sports
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Note
Description based on print version record.
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Original 9781477326459 1477326456 9781477327111 1477327118 (DLC) 2022022511