![]() ![]() 'The cold water has given me the key to unlock myself within a place I didn't know existed: the community of cold water swimmers right around the world. “A remarkable job of tackling a complex subject and bringing it to life.” -John Feinstein “Add even more luster to the indelibly heroic achievements of Jesse Owens.” -Ken Burns With incisive reporting and rich storytelling, Schaap reveals what really happened over those tense, exhilarating weeks in a “snappy and dramatic” work of sports history (Publishers Weekly). Drawing on unprecedented access to the Owens family, previously unpublished interviews, and archival research, Jeremy Schaap transports us to Germany and tells the dramatic tale of Owens and his fellow athletes at the contest dubbed the Nazi Olympics. It is also the intimate and complex tale of one remarkable man’s courage. The story of Jesse Owens at the Berlin games is that of an athletic performance that transcends sports. 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, single-handedly falsifying Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy. Summary This New York Times–bestselling author’s account of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin offers a “vivid portrait not just of Owens but of ’30s Germany and America” (Sports Illustrated). ![]() ![]() READ Triumph - The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics Jeremy Schaap ![]()
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