A History of the 1984 Winter Games
Few human enterprises blend light and darkness quite so much as the Olympics, where international cooperation and nationalistic fervor do battle in a five-ring circus. The 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo were a profoundly double-edged spectacle. The lively writing of Jason Vuic re-lights the torch for all of us in a colorful remembrance of the best and the worst of what the Olympics can be.--Marty Dobrow, author of Knocking on Heaven's Door: Six Minor Leaguers in Search of the Baseball Dream An impressively researched and deftly narrated tale of an unexpectedly delightful Winter Games whose legacy survives the dark, destructive days that followed. The definitive account of Sarajevo 1984.--John Powers, Boston Globe Whenever I heard the word 'Sarajevo, ' I thought sadly of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914) and the Siege of Sarajevo (1992-1996). Now, thanks to Jason Vuic's brilliantly conceived and executed history, I think also of Sarajevo's happier days as the place where, in 1984, Jayne Torvill, Christopher Dean, and Katarina Witt skated to Olympic glory.--Allen Guttmann, author of The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games
An independent scholar and freelance writer, Jason Vuic holds a PhD in Balkan and Eastern European history from Indiana University, USA. His previous publications include The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History.