The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics
by
Jeremy Schaap
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
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).
At the 1936 Olympics, against a backdrop of swastikas and goose-stepping storm troopers, an African American...