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020			_a9780511761805 (ebook)
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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aGV722 _b1980 .S27 2011
082	0	0	_a796.48 _222
100	1		_aSarantakes, Nicholas Evan, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDropping the Torch : _bJimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War / _cNicholas Evan Sarantakes.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (356 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aDropping 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.
650		0	_aCold War
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521194778
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511761805
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38302 _d38302