A review by taralorraine
Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany by Andrew Maraniss

informative slow-paced

2.5

While, yes, this book did do a decent(ish) job of telling the story of the first Olympic basketball team - I would say probably half of this book wasn't directly focused on that topic. The tangents were relevant for establishing historical context, but there was so much that seemed unnecessary to the main storyline. 

Also, the captions were really poorly done. Most just repeated things said in the text. 

I did learn a few interesting things, but this felt like it could have been an article instead of a book. 

Also, the author just seemed to input his own views a little to much making this less than objective information.