Cortina 1956

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.