Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics
Jeremy Schaap, . . Houghton Mifflin, $24 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-618-68822-7
Written as though the film treatment were already completed, Schaap's chronicle of Jesse Owens's journey to and glorious triumph at the 1936 Berlin Olympics is snappy and dramatic, with an eye for the rousing climax, through curiously slight on follow-through. Starting with Owens as the well-feted ex-athlete in the 1950s, Schaap (an ESPN anchor and author of
Reviewed on: 11/27/2006
Genre: Nonfiction
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