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Jesse Owens: An American Life

William J. Baker

Jesse Owens: An American Life

Paperback (University of Illinois Press July 3, 2006) , Reprint edition
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 Aryan supremecy in the process. This is his biography.
ISBN
025207369X / 9780252073694
Pages
289
Weight
16.0 oz.
Dimensions
9.0 x 6.0 in.

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