![]() ![]() ![]() Muhammad Ali-but he also puts the games into context in terms of political and historical significance. While focusing on the eighteen days that constituted the Summer Olympics that year, Maraniss offers not only biographies of several significant athletes-decathlete Rafer Johnson, marathoner Abebe Bikila, sprinter Wilma Rudolph, and the boxer Cassius Clay a.k.a. ![]() He really masterfully captures the significance of exactly how many things drastically changed that year. Everything You Never Knew You Wanted to Know About The 1960 Olympicsĭavid Maraniss has somehow found to a way to encapsulate all of the political, emotional, and historical events that occurred around the 1960 Olympics in Rome…and all without making us roll our eyes or doze off. ![]()
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