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Released: July 10, 2012
"Basketball and Olympics fans will welcome this nostalgic trip through the recent past."
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Released: June 5, 2012
"A cultural history of sports that says as much about all of us as it does about athletes."
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Released: Aug. 4, 2011
"A witty, light-handed chronicle, though after three years, the Beijing Olympics has already lost its luster."
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Released: July 1, 2008
"Evocative, entertaining and often suspenseful--sports history at a very high standard."
Timely, illuminating account of the 17th Olympiad, with its many firsts, including the first doping scandal in Olympic history.
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Released: June 1, 2008
"Revealing portrait of urban change, and the consequences of China's unquenchable thirst for modernization."
An American lives side by side with the fear-stricken denizens of an ancient neighborhood that will not survive China's Olympic Games.
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Released: April 1, 2007
"An excellent contribution to sports--and political--history."
The Olympics are supposed to transcend politics, but this fine study reminds us that the Berlin Games were nothing but political.
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Released: Feb. 1, 2007
"Explodes off the blocks and proceeds with grace and fluidity."
From the author of
Cinderella Man (2005), another true-life tale of an underdog asserting his worth with a sports triumph.
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Released: Jan. 11, 2005
"Makes pure hockey of a much-manipulated moment. (8 pp. b&w photos, not seen)"
An exciting replay of the American hockey team's defeat of the Soviets at the 1980 Olympics from
Daily News sportswriter Coffey, who provides generous background on both teams.
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Released: Aug. 1, 2004
"An essential resource: always reliable and instructive, often entertaining. (20 b&w illustrations)"
Just in time for the Summer Olympics, a fresh new history of the games that begot all of today's quadrennial pomp, circumstance, competition, and urine-testing.
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Released: June 15, 2004
"A timely re-creation and recreation: wonderful history for sports fans, great sportswriting for classicists, and fun for all. (30 illustrations, not seen)"
A trip back 2,500 years to the original Olympic Games: though lacking sponsorship from mighty auto manufacturers, they still reveal many congruencies with current Olympic practices.
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Released: Nov. 12, 2001
"Merits a spot on the top step of the podium. (8 pp. b&w photos, not seen)"
Tension builds along with skills as two American swimmers prepare for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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Released: Nov. 1, 1992
"A lock for a fast-break to the bestseller lists. (Sixteen pages of b&w photographs—not seen.)"
Magic's second autobiography, far richer than his first (Magic, 1983), for this one (written with Novak, coauthor of autobiographies of Nancy Reagan, Lee Iacocca, etc.) details not only the prestidigitation of the NBA's greatest point guard but also the stunning 1991 revelation of HIV infection that turned Johnson into a world celebrity.
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