Jesse Owens - An American Life

Informationen zum Autor William J. Baker is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Maine. His books include Of Gods and Games: Religious Faith and Modern Sports, If Christ Came to the Olympics, and Sports in the Western World. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Born the tenth child of a poor Southern sharecropper! Jesse Owens would nevertheless go on to win an unprecedented four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. This biography of Owens details the successes and failures of this complex and troubled but ultimately indomitable figure who transcended his own athleticism and became an American icon.

Product details

• Authors: William J Baker, William J. Baker
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2006
• EAN: 9780252073694
• ISBN: 978-0-252-07369-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Sport and Society; Sport and Society
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies