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Author:

Schaap, Jeremy.

Title:

Triumph : the untold story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics / Jeremy Schaap.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xv, 272 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Owens, Jesse,
Track and field
African Americans
Jews
Glickman, Marty,
Stoller, Sam
Olympics
Olympic Games
National socialism
Racism
Athletes
Germany--History

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Prologue -- A day to remember -- Out of Alabama -- Vincible -- Heelbones and a new start -- Hitler's Olympics -- The judge and the millionaire -- "We are with you, Adolf" -- Winter 1936 -- A friend and a foe felled -- Olympic trials -- Olympia -- The belle of the ball -- The battle tent of some great emperor -- The youth of the world -- Day one -- Day two -- Day three -- He flies like the Hindenburg -- The relay -- Epilogue.

Summary:

Presents a comprehensive analysis of the 1936 Olympic games hosted by Germany, America's threat to boycott the games, and the four Olympic gold medals won by African-American athlete Jesse Owens, whose performance crushed Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy.

Indexed by:

Publisher's Weekly
Kirkus Starred

ISBN:

0618688226 (alk. paper)
9780618688227 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006026926

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