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Jesse Owens: An American Life (Sport and Society (SPS))
Jesse Owens An American Life - Sport and Society SPS
Author: William J. Baker
Born the tenth child of a poor Southern sharecropper and barely able to read or write, Jesse Owens would nevertheless go on to win an unprecedented four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, becoming an international superstar overnight and exploding Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy in the process. William J. Baker's "Jesse Owens" is the most...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780252073694
ISBN-10: 025207369X
Publication Date: 7/3/2006
Pages: 304
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Book Type: Paperback
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