A Great Holiday Gift For The Geo-Political Olympic Sports Fan

Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games , the new book chronicling the Soviet aggression of Afghanistan and the 1980 U.S. avoid of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, is accessible in bookstores and on internet retailers about the apple and makes for the absolute anniversary allowance for the geo-political Olympic sports fan.

Written by identical twins Tom Caraccioli and Jerry Caraccioli, Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games ($25.95, New Chapter Press) chronicles the belief of 18 aristocratic American athletes who accomplished bags of hours for their once-in-a-lifetime adventitious at Olympic celebrity in Moscow alone to become pawns in a political Cold War chess bout amid superpowers. The book aswell outlines the Soviet aggression of Afghanistan that led to the boycott, efforts by a accumulation of athletes to annul the avoid by acknowledged means, and the absolute 1980 aggregation eventually accepting the Congressional Gold Medal, the accomplished noncombatant accolade which is bestowed by the United States Congress.

Vice President Walter F. Mondale, who batten on account of the avoid above-mentioned to the USOC’s April 12, 1980 vote to clearly avoid the Games, wrote the Foreword for the book. Mondale apologizes to all the athletes who were denied the befalling to attempt calling them, “warriors in our country’s aegis of freedom.” Other political abstracts featured in the book cover Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko, U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brezezinski, Soviet announcer Vladimir Pozner, USOC President Robert Kane, USOC Executive Director F. Don Miller, U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Olympic rower Anita DeFrantz, Afghan President Hafizullah Amin a allotment of others.

Among those acknowledging the book cover CBS Sports analyst Dick Enberg, who states, “ Boycott abnormally and poignantly captures the appulse of American athletes denied the befalling to attempt in the Olympic Games. Nearly three decades later, I abide to acknowledge and accept their affliction and anger. Thanks to the authors, we are reminded of their brave, but aching sacrifice. This book, then, becomes their belated, but adapted Olympic salute.“ Said Anita DeFrantz, President of LA84 Foundation, affiliate of the International Olympic Committee and USOC Board member, “The avoid of 1980 was a beauteous acquaintance because I anticipation in our country, the individuals had the appropriate to accomplish their choices in sport. It is abating that the Caracciolis absitively to accouterment this adventure about America and American athletes in a arduous time.“

Unlike athletes like Michael Phelps, Shawn Johnson, Nastia Liukin, Laura Berg, Brian Clay, Lopez Lomong, Dina Rizzo, Dremiel Byers, Karen O’Connor, Adler Volmar, Mariel Zagunis, Amy Tryon, Levi Leipheimer, Kerri Walsh, Kim Probst, Alicia Sacramone and others, athletes featured in the book did not accept a adventitious to attempt on the admirable stage. Athletes featured in the book are: Don Paige (Athletics) Philadelphia, Pa. / Bahama, N.C.; Glenn Mills (Swimming) Ridgeville, Ohio / Chester, Md. ; Gwen Gardner (Athletics) Los Angeles, Calif; Gene Mills (Wrestling) Pompton Lakes, N.J. / Liverpool, N.Y. ; Craig Beardsley (Swimming) New York, N.Y. / Chatham, N.J. ; Sue Walsh (Swimming) Hamburg, N.Y. / Durham, N.C.; Bill Hanzlik (Basketball) Beloit, Wisc., / Denver, Colo.; Amy Koopman (Gymnastics) Arlington Heights, Ill.; Isiah Thomas (Basketball) Chicago, Ill. / New York, N.Y.; Carol Blazejowski (Basketball) Fairview, N.J.; Luci Collins (Gymnastics) Inglewood, Calif.; David Kimes (Shooting) Monterey Park, Calif. / La Palma, Calif.; Brian Gust (Wrestling) Lakeville, Minn.; Lisa Buese (Swimming) Louisville, Ky. / Palo Alto, Calif.; Linda Cornelius Waltman (Athletics) Ft. Worth, Tx / Boerne, Tx; Thomas Schuler (Cycling) Birmingham, Mich. / Wauwatosa, Wisc; Ron Galimore (Gymnastics) Ames, Iowa / Indianapolis, Ind.; Debbie Landreth (Volleyball) El Segundo, Calif. / Granger, Ind.;

Boycott is appear by New Chapter Press – aswell the administrator of The Roger Federer Story, Quest for Perfection by Rene Stauffer and The Bud Collins History of Tennis by Bud Collins. Founded in 1987, New Chapter Press ( www.newchapterpressmedia.com ) is an absolute administrator of books and allotment of the Independent Publishers Group.

Contact:

Randy Walker
New Chapter Press
New York, NY
917-770-0843
Rwalker@newchapterpressmedia.com http://www.newchapterpressmedia.com

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