Triumph : the untold story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics /

Triumph : the untold story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Schaap, Jeremy.
Imprint:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Description:	xv, 272 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Owens, Jesse, -- 1913-1980 Glickman, Marty, -- 1917-2001. Stoller, Sam, -- 1915-1983. Glickman, Marty, -- 1917-2001. Owens, Jesse, -- 1913-1980. Stoller, Sam, -- 1915-1983. Olympic Games -- (11th : -- 1936 : -- Berlin, Germany) Olympic Games. Track and field athletes -- United States -- Biography. African American athletes -- Biography. Jewish athletes -- United States -- Biography. Olympics -- Participation, American. National socialism -- Philosophy. Racism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century. African American track and field athletes. Jewish athletes. National socialism -- Philosophy. Racism. Track and field athletes. Germany. United States. Biographies. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6277980

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ISBN:	0618688226 (alk. paper) 9780618688227 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and index.

Table of Contents:

Prologue
Part I.
1. A Day to Remember
2. Out of Alabama
3. Vincible
4. Heel Bones and a New Start
Part II.
5. The Judge and the Millionaire
6. "We Are with You, Adolf"
7. A Blessing in Disguise
8. Jew Kills Nazi
9. A Friend and a Foe Felled
10. Olympic Trials
Part III.
11. Olympia
12. The Belle of the Ball
13. The Battle Tent of Some Great Emperor
14. The Youth of the World
15. Day One
16. Day Two
17. Day Three
18. "He Flies Like the Hindenburg": Day Four
19. The Relay
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index