| Edition |
First Illinois paperback |
| Description |
xii, 289 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Sport and society |
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Sport and society.
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| Note |
Originally published: New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, ©1986. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-273) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- Southern grit -- Friends, mentors, and heroes -- College pride and prejudice -- Coping with pressure -- Bound for glory -- The Berlin blitz -- A champion's reward -- Tarnished gold -- Chasing rainbows -- Patriotic games -- The back side of success -- An athlete growing old -- A legend memorialized -- Durable dreams. |
| Summary |
Born the tenth child of a poor Southern sharecropper and barely able to read or write, Jesse Owens would nevertheless go on to win an unprecedented four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, becoming an international superstar overnight and exploding Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy in the process. William J. Baker's Jesse Owens is the most complete and probing biography of Owens ever written, vividly detailing the successes and failures of this complex and troubled but ultimately indomitable figure who transcended his own athleticism and became an American icon. -- Publisher description. |
| Subject |
Owens, Jesse, 1913-1980.
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Track and field athletes -- United States -- Biography.
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African American track and field athletes -- Biography.
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Owens, Jesse, 1913-1980. (OCoLC)fst01435254
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African American track and field athletes. (OCoLC)fst01762406
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Track and field athletes. (OCoLC)fst01153638
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Owens, Jesse, 1913-1980. (DE-588)118738917
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Biographie. (DE-588)4006804-3
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Owens, Jesse.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Baker, William J. (William Joseph), 1938- Jesse Owens. 1st Illinois pbk. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2006 (OCoLC)646926455 |
| ISBN |
025207369X (paperback ;) (alk. paper) |
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9780252073694 (paperback ;) (alk. paper) |
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