Jules Boykoff
Born
in The United States
September 11, 1971
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Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics
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2016
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5 editions
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Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States
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2007
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3 editions
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What Are the Olympics For?
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NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond
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Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry & Public Space
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2008
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Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge
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2006
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Hegemonic Love Potion
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2009
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2 editions
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The Metal Sunset of Tomorrow's Ascending Dissension
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2006
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The Suppression of Dissent
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2006
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9 editions
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The Slow Motion Underneath
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2007
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“IOC member and future president Lord Killanin sent a packet of critical letters to US Olympics official Clifford Buck and exclaimed: “I fear these political, social and technical problems in Colorado are not helping the Olympic Movement! The letters seem reasonable and not cranky!”17”
― Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics
― Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics
“Twenty-one out of twenty-two of the stadiums, arenas, sports halls and swimming pools built for the Games are either derelict, in a state of disrepair, boarded up or unable to find a buyer and underused.”
― Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics
― Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics
“The Greeks excluded women from the ancient Olympics, he argued, but spectators have “long suffered from watching female footracers and hardware heavers burlesque a noble sport. They just haven’t the correct architecture for it. So why run counter to the obvious wishes of Mother Nature?”123”
― Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics
― Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics
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