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 enlarge | Author: Jeremy Schaap
Creator: Michael Kramer
Publisher: Tantor Media
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 4691886
Format: Audiobook, Cd, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged
Media: MP3 CD
Edition: MP3 Una
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 1400153670
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.42092
EAN: 9781400153671
ASIN: 1400153670
Publication Date: March 5, 2007
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 Pure Gold!!! March 25, 2007
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Mr. Schaap has sifted through the myth and legend of Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics and given us a compelling account of these extraordinary games. He presents a balanced account of the man and athlete Mr. Owens was, from his humble beginnings in Alabama to his record setting Olympic performance. He sets the tone early by recounting the legendary day of days in Ann Arbor when Mr. Owens achieved one of the greatest athletic accomplishments of all time by tying one and setting FOUR WORLD RECORDS in the span of one hour. He takes us through the politics of race and the olympics. He transports us back to a moment in time when the world was on the precipice of war. For such a small book this is A STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT!!!
A 20th century Sport Hero March 18, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Sport stories tend to be puffed up and dry. This story lifted out of the early days of WW2 brings to the reader "in living color" the true stry of Jesse James. I had the good fortune of meeting him on two occasions and there was never a finer gentleman than Jesse Owens.
Jack Vax
Fantastic ! Page turner! March 16, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a wonderfully written book. It sounds cliche, but I really couldn't put it down!
 pop non-fiction February 18, 2007
3 out of 13 found this review helpful
I was very disappointed with the book. Given the sharp professionalism of Mr. Schaap's television reporting, I had expected a scholarly work on the subject. Unfortunately, it often reads like a movie script, with imagined dialogue.
AN HISTORIC SPORTS ICON, SPORT'S GREATEST HOUR , AND HITLER'S OLYMPICS February 17, 2007
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
Sports writer and ESPN "Sports Center" anchor Jeremy Schaap reveals Jesse Owens as not just a beloved American 'sports icon', but also a towering figure on both the international sports and world history stages. The only athlete to be singled out in the world history books for his very notable international athletic achievements during the Olympic Games just prior to Hitler's scourging of Europe in the runup to World War II. Mr Schaap reveals new insights about Jesse Owens in Berlin. And the Jesse Owens/Lutz Long friendship and it's aftermath are truly moving. He is also the central figure in the greatest one-hour period of individual sports achievements, ever.
This book also the details who 'discovered' Jesse Owens, who helped him hone his God-given talents, a day-by-day detailing of the Berlin political and sports environment and Owens' 1936 Olympic triumphs, the AAU incident, what happened to Jesse Owens when he triumphantly returned from the 'Hitler Olympic Games' and how differently he was treated as opposed to today's self-possessed, rich athletes; what he did to earn money after track & field; and what he ultimately died from. Along the way, the author debunks one of the greatest myths in Olympic history and Owen's role in it. And, truth be told, the book details the racism of that period. This is a marvelous, well-written book by Jeremy Schaap that spotlights a singular athlete and human being: a man who 'wrote' a chapter of sports history that every true sports fan should know. Jesse Owens was the quintessential "amateur athlete" of the 20th Century. My Highest Recommendation!!
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