Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics | Book on Olympic Politics & International Relations | Perfect for Sports Historians & Political Science Students" （注：根据要求翻译成英文，增加SEO关键词如"book on Olympic politics"和"international relations"，并添加使用场景"for sports historians & political science students"）

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A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic GamesThe Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers’ Games and Women’s Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.