[Mobile book] Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics
| #249469 in Books | Jeremy Schaap | 2008-02-05 | 2008-02-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.71 x5.50l,.67 | File Name: 0618919104 | 304 pages | Triumph The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler s Olympics
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent book on Jesse Owens|By LSmith|The accomplishments of Jesse Owens in the 1936 Summer Olympics is still revered and celebrated now, eighty years later. Not just for the athletic achievement of earning four gold medals, but also for dispelling the myth of Adolf Hitler’s notion of Aryan superiority is this feat remembered. In this excellent book by Jeremy Schapp,|From Publishers Weekly|Written as though the film treatment were already completed, Schaap's chronicle of Jesse Owens's journey to and glorious triumph at the 1936 Berlin Olympics is snappy and dramatic, with an eye for the rousing climax, through curiously sli
At the 1936 Olympics, against a backdrop of swastikas and goose-stepping storm troopers, an African-American son of sharecroppers won a staggering four gold medals and single-handedly demonstrated that Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy was a lie. The story of Jesse Owens at the Berlin games is that of an athletic performance that transcends sports. It is also the intimate and complex tale of one remarkable man's courage. Drawing on unprecedented access to the ... [PDF.gm49] Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics Rating: 3.89 (415 Votes)
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