TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schaap,Jeremy
TI  - Triumph: the untold story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics 
SN  - 0618688226 (alk. paper)
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin
KW  - Glickman, Marty,
KW  - Owens, Jesse,
KW  - Stoller, Sam,
KW  - Olympic Games
KW  - (11th
KW  - 1936
KW  - Berlin, Germany)
KW  - African American athletes
KW  - Biography
KW  - Jewish athletes
KW  - United States
KW  - National socialism
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Olympics
KW  - Participation, American
KW  - Racism
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Track and field athletes
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index; Prologue -- A day to remember -- Out of Alabama -- Vincible -- Heelbones 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
N2  - In 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers looming, an African-American son of sharecroppers set three world records and won an unprecedented four gold medals, single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy. The story of Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympic Games is that of a high-profile athlete giving a performance that transcends sports--but it is also the intimate and complex tale of the courage of one remarkable man. From the start, American participation in the games was controversial--a boycott attempt was thwarted by the president of the American Olympic Committee. Owens was befriended by a German rival, who helped Owens win the gold medal at his own expense; two Jewish sprinters were, at the last moment, denied the chance to compete for the United States out of misguided politeness to the Nazi hosts; and a myth was born that Hitler himself had snubbed Owens.--From publisher description
ER  -