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Cambridge University Press Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War

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Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War offers a diplomatic history of the 1980 Olympic boycott. Broad in its focus, it looks at events in Washington, D.C., as well as the opposition to the boycott and how this attempted embargo affected the athletic contests in Moscow. Jimmy Carter based his foreign policy on assumptions that had fundamental flaws and reflected a superficial familiarity with the Olympic movement. These basic mistakes led to a campaign that failed to meet its basic mission objectives but did manage to insult the Soviets just enough to destroy détente and restart the Cold War. The book also includes a military history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which provoked the boycott, and an examination of the boycott's impact four years later at the Los Angeles Olympics, where the Soviet Union retaliated with its own boycott.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0521194776
Category: Books > Subjects > History > World History > Cold War
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 September 2010
Listed Since: 04 February 2010

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