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Author Schaap, Jeremy.

Title Triumph : the untold story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics / Jeremy Schaap.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1261565~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  796.42092 OWE    AVAILABLE
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Description xv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-256) and index.
Contents Prologue -- A day to remember -- Out of Alabama -- Vincible -- Heel bones 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.
Subject Owens, Jesse, 1913-1980.
Glickman, Marty, 1917-2001.
Stoller, Sam, 1915-1983.
Track and field athletes -- Biography.
African American athletes -- Biography.
Jewish athletes -- Biography.
Olympics -- Participation, American.
National socialism -- Philosophy.
Racism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 0618688226
9780618688227
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