Fully revised and updated from the 2014 edition, bringing readers up to date before the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. Assesses the final tally of debt and displacement that accompanied the 2014 World Cup, as well as eyewitness accounts of militarised police crackdowns.

Dave Zirin: Dave Zirin, The Nation’s sports correspondent, is the author, most recently, of Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down. Named one of UTNE Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” Zirin is a frequent guest on MSNBC, ESPN and Democracy Now! He also hosts his own weekly Sirius XM show, Edge of Sports Radio.