6/10/2023 0 Comments Rome 1960 david maranissWhile Maraniss devotes much of his narrative to the individual events and their results, the meat of this story is in his argument that the Rome Olympics were placed at a crossroads of both the sporting world and global society as a whole, the biggest of these changes clearly represented by women’s track and field coach Ed Temple and his Tennessee State Tigerbelles, led by superstar speedster Wilma Rudolph. Maraniss has written on sports before, penning biographies of both Vince Lombardi and Roberto Clemente, but Rome 1960 looks at the broader cultural impacts the Seventeenth Olympiad had on the world and the effect the world’s changing social mores had on the Olympics. In Rome 1960, Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss brings his marvelous prose back to the world of sports and chronicles the Olympic Games at the center of global change.
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