Triumph : the untold story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics

Schaap, Jeremy. (Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0618688226 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780618688227 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xv, 272 p., [8] p. of plates : ill ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue -- A day to remember -- Out of Alabama -- Vincible -- Heel bones and a new start -- The judge and the millionaire -- "We are with you, Adolf" -- A blessing in disguise -- Jew kills Nazi -- 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.

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Subject:

Owens, Jesse 1913-1980
Glickman, Marty 1917-2001
Stoller, Sam 1915-1983
Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany)
Track and field athletes United States Biography
African American athletes Biography
Jewish athletes United States Biography
Olympics Participation, American
National socialism Philosophy
Racism Germany History 20th century

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