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Audiobooks Cold War Detroit (Mich.) History 20th century Olympic Games (17th : 1960 : Rome, Italy) Olympics Political aspects Olympics Social aspects Thorpe, Jim 1887-1953 United States Politics and government 1963-1969 Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Protest movements United States Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United StatesMaraniss, David.
Summary: Author Maraniss weaves sports, politics, and history into a tour de force about the 1960 Olympics. Along with the unforgettable characters and dramatic contests, there was a deeper meaning to those days at the dawn of the sixties. Change was everywhere. Old-boy notions of Olympic amateurism were crumbling. Rome saw the first doping scandal, the first commercially televised Summer Games, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.48 MARMARANISS, DAVID
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Publisher / Publication Date: SIMON 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 MARMaraniss, David
Summary: "A personal story of the author's father's involvement in HUAC that offers a rich portrait of McCarthy era America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 MARMaraniss, David.
Summary: Based on hundreds of interviews and documents, this book chronicles the forces that shaped the first black president of the United States and explains why he thinks and acts as he does.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, BARACK MARMaraniss, David.
Summary: The author examines how the world's political and social climate affected the 1960 Olympics presenting tales of espionage and propaganda and portraits of its personalities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 796.48 MARMaraniss, David
Summary: "It's 1963 and Detroit is on top of the world. The city's leaders are among the most visionary in America: Grandson of the first Ford; Henry Ford II; influential labor leader Walter Reuther; Motown's founder Berry Gordy; the Reverend C.L. Franklin and his daughter, the amazing Aretha; Governor George Romney, Mormon and Civil Rights advocate; super car salesman Lee Iacocca; Mayor Jerome...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 977.434 MARMaraniss, David
Summary: Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, in the first class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and played major league baseball for the New York Giants. But despite his colossal skills, Thorpe's life was a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THORPE, JIM MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B THORPE MARMaraniss, David.
Summary: In 1963 Detroit was on top of the world. The city's leaders were among the most visionary in America; it was the American auto makers' best year; the revolution in music and politics was underway. Reuther's UAW had helped lift the middle class. The time was full of promise. Once in a Great City shows that the shadows of collapse were evident even then. Detroit at its peak was threatened by its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.4 MARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 MARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI South MaranissMaraniss, David.
Summary: Maranisss offers an account of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, revealing the competition's unexpected influence on the modern world, in a narrative synopsis that evaluates the roles of Cold War propaganda, civil rights, and politics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 796.48 MARMaraniss, David.
Summary: Here is the epic story of Vietnam and the sixties told through the events of a few tumultuous days in October 1967. David Maraniss takes the reader on an unforgettable journey to the battlefields of war and peace. In a seamless narrative, Maraniss weaves together three very different worlds of that time: the death and heroism of soldiers in Vietnam, the anger and anxiety of antiwar students...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003