Description Something in the Air is Richard Hoffer\'s gripping sports narrative that tells the individual stories of the athletes who gathered in Mexico City in 1968, a year of dramatic upheaval around the world.
Although basketball star Lew Alcindor (later to become the great K.
Olympic team, where inflamed black athletes had to choose between demands for justice, on the one hand, and loyalty to country, on the other.
Racial tensions were high on the U.
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Description Something in the Air is Richard Hoffer\'s gripping sports narrative that tells the individual stories of the athletes who gathered in Mexico City in 1968, a year of dramatic upheaval around the world