This is the WBZ book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. With Paris the center of the world's attention due to the Olympics, I thought it offer up some book titles for you Olympic fans to check out, something to read up on before the next Athletic meet. There's Dreamers and Schemers. How an improbable bid for the nineteen thirty two Olympics. Transform Los Angeles from dusty outpost a global metropolis by Barry Siegel, particularly coaching because the Olympics are coming back to La.
On the subject of history, There's the Games Must Go On, Avery Brundage and the Olympic Movement. Brundage did a lot for the International Olympics, but also had his dark failures, including looking the other way and allowing the Nazis to host the Olympics in nineteen thirty six. And then. The perfect overview can be found in The Games, a Global History of the Olympics written back in twenty eighteen by
David Goldblat. Learn about the reinstitution of the Games in Athens in eighteen ninety six, the origin of the Olympic traditions such as the torch relay and the Eternal Flame and the Olympic Icons, A great Overview the Games, A global History of the Olympics. And that's the book club. WBZ, Boston's news radio