Jesse Owens: An American Life by William J. Baker

Jesse Owens: An American Life

Sport and Society

William J. Baker

289 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction biography emotional medium-paced
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Born the tenth child of a poor Southern sharecropper and barely able to read or write, Jesse Owens went on to win an unprecedented four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, becoming an international superstar and exploding Hitler's myth of Ary...

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