Cortina 1956 - Andrea Goldstein

Memory is our future, this is the title we gave to the projects to celebrate the Bicentenary of the Egyptian Museum; the same goes for the publication in which Andrea Goldstein recalls the distant events of the 1956 Winter Games in Cortina. Passing through Turin 2006, up to Milan Cortina 2026, this is a beautiful journey to celebrate Italy’s Olympic history.

Evelina Christillin

First Deputy President of the Torino 2006 Organizing Committee; President of the Museo Egizio

Andrea Goldstein completes his trilogy on the political economy of global sports with this history of the 1956 Winter Olympics. He is unrivalled in the ability to synthesize the many complex issues at stake – diplomatic and economic, social and political, economic and environmental, local and global – to offer the reader a fine example of the kind of reasoned judgement that is as rare as it is necessary in our democracies.

Patrick Clastres

Professor of International Sport History and Director of the Centre d’études olympiques & de la globalisation du sport, University of Lausanne

Andrea Goldstein has contributed so much to our understanding of sports history. Here he tackles an almost forgotten winter Olympics, and tells a story that reveals so much about both postwar Italy and the Cold War more broadly – all written in good clear prose. He understands that sport matters in itself, but is also always more than sport.

Simon Kuper

Columnist, Financial Times; co-author of Soccernomics