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• Title Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: The Formative Years
• Chapter 1: The Olympic Family
• Chapter 2: Coubertin’s Creation
• Chapter 3: Starting Anew
• Chapter 4: The Berlin Games
• Part II: The Brundage Era
• Chapter 5: Another War
• Chapter 6: Entry of the Soviets
• Chapter 7: The Cold War Arena
• Chapter 8: The Idealist at the Helm
• Chapter 9: The Issue of Political Discrimination
• Chapter 10: Brundage’s Troubled Last Term
• Part III: “Opening” the Games
• Chapter 11: Seeking the Lee
• Chapter 12: Boycott!
• Chapter 13: . . . and Again!
• Chapter 14: Reconstructing the Olympic Edifice
• Chapter 15: The Last Cold War Games
• Chapter 16: The Collapse of the Soviet Union
• Chapter 17: The Capitalist Centennial Games
• Chapter 18: From Atlanta to Nagano
• Chapter 19: Entering the 21st Century
• List of Acronyms
• Bibliography and References
• Index
• About the Author
• Ad