![]() ![]() Maraniss is an associate editor at the Washington Post and was the recepient of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1993. The US and the Soviet Union were locked into competing narratives and each fought hard for propaganda victories. David Maraniss is the author of several books, including biographies of Roberto Clemente, Vince Lombardi, and Bill Clinton. Rome 1960: The Summer Olympics That Stirred the World, by David Maraniss The social and political turmoil of the 1960s, argues David Maraniss, was anticipated in the Games that began the decade. Maraniss responded to audience members' questions. 26.95 JChapter One All Roads to Rome Two weeks before the opening of the 1960 Rome Olympics, in the midst of one of the hottest. ![]() ![]() The 1960 Summer Olympics were the first to be commercially televised and were remembered for Cold War political tensions and the civil rights movement in the United States. Maraniss profiles a United States Olympic team that included gold medal-winning sprinter, Wilma Rudolph, boxer Cassius Clay, and decathelete Rafer Johnson, the first African American to carry the U.S. Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World is a 2008 book by David Maraniss published by Simon & Schuster of New York, London, Toronto, and Sydney in July, 2008. ![]() T02:29:50-04:00 David Maraniss, talked about his book, Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World (Simon and Schuster July 1, 2008), which recounts the Rome Summer Olympics of 1960. ![]()
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