MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2008

PUBLIC PROGRAM

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How the Olympics Changed the World

with

David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author

Using the Rome 1960 Olympics as the backdrop, David Maraniss will discuss how those Games changed the world, and how politics, history, and sports combine in the Olympics. Chicago was involved then, with Chicagoan Avery Brundage serving as the president of the International Olympic Committee, and is involved again now as the U.S. bid city for the 2016 Olympics. In 1960, the Rome Olympics featured Rafer Johnson, Wilma Rudolph, and Cassius Clay. Rome also witnessed the first doping scandal, the first commercially televised summer games, and the first athlete paid for wearing a particular brand of shoes. The Cold War was at its height, but East and West Germany competed as a unified team less than a year before the Berlin Wall. There was a heated dispute over the two Chinas, and the People’s Republic of China did not compete, protesting the inclusion of Taiwan. What can we learn from Olympic history, and what do the 2008 Beijing Games hold in store?

David Maraniss is an associate editor at the Washington Post and a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.  He won the Pulitzer in 1993 for national reporting for coverage of then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton. He was also part of the Post’s team that recently won a 2008 Pulitzer for the coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting.  Maraniss is the author of seven books, the latest of which is Rome 1960: How the Olympics Changed the World, which will be available for purchase and signing at the program. 

InterContinental Hotel
505 North Michigan
Chicago, IL 60611

6:00 p.m. Presentation and discussion
7:15 p.m. Book signing and cash bar reception  

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Nonmembers $30
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