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The Wall Street Journal has called The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics ¡°a staggering compendium of results, highlights and oddment¡±, while Los Angeles Times trumpets it as the ¡°ultimate Olympic source book.¡± The No. 1 reference source for Olympic media, athletes and fans, Wallechinsky¡¯s work also abounds with facts and anecdotes that leave readers feeling as if they were present at the finish line and, later that evening, in the athletes¡¯ village. Wallechinsky glides effortlessly through more than a century of Olympic lore to bring to life such legendary champions as Jim Thorpe, Paavo Nurmi and Jesse Owens. He takes readers into the ring with Cassius Clay, into the pool with Mark Spitz and onto the balance beam with Nadia Com¨£neci, while also paying tribute to such modern-era stars as Greg Louganis, Carl Lewis and Steve Redgrave in passages that explore the drama behind the medals.
Wallechinsky also examines the dark side of the Olympics, recounting boycotts, terrorism, IOC corruption and the modern scourge, doping. He leaves no issue unattended and no winner unrecognized in a book that¡¯s been hailed as an ¡°Olympian piece of scholarship.¡±
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