Triumph : the untold story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics / Jeremy Schaap.
Author: Schaap, Jeremy.
Publisher: Boston [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
ISBN: 9780618688227 (cloth)
0618688226 (cloth)
Description: xv, 272 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Subject: Owens, Jesse, 1913-1980.
Glickman, Marty, 1917-2001.
Stoller, Sam, 1915-1983.
Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany).
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.
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": day four --The relay -- Epilogue.
