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

Author: Schaap, Jeremy.

Imprint:Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Description:xv, 272 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.

Note: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.

Electronic Resource:Electronic version: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006026926.html -- Materials specified: Table of contents only

Electronic Resource:Related electronic resource: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0665/2006026926-d.html -- Materials specified: Publisher description

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Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany)
Track and field athletes -- United States -- Biography.
African American athletes -- Biography.
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Olympics -- Participation, American.
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