The Modern Olympics: A Struggle for Revival

by David C. Young and Professor David C. Young

Book Overview

According to most accounts, the man solely responsible for reviving the modern Olympic Games was Baron Pierre de Coubertin. Now, in The Modern Olympics, David C. Young challenges this view, revealing that Coubertin was only the last and most successful of many contributors to the dream of the modern Olympics.

Based on thirteen years of research in previously neglected documents, Young reconstructs the fascinating and almost unknown...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801872073
• ISBN13: 9780801872075
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 8.5"