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Carregando... Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympicsde Jeremy Schaap
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. nonfiction/biography. ( ) A fascinating story of his youth, where an alert coach saw the potential in an elementary school child. I read it as a hard copy, so have few quotes from this engaging book. It skillfully compares the racial discrimination in the USA with Hitler’s discrimination against Jews and his desire to prove the Aryan race superior using the 1936 Olympics. “Owens was accustomed to that particular attitude (of discrimination) and inured to it. His lifelong refusal to allow bigots to truly bother him was often considered, unfairly, a token of his weakness. Even at the age of twenty-two, Owens knew who he was and what he was, and he could see no good reason to allow himself to become embittered by the ignorance of lesser men.” (Page 185) “The AAU gets the money” but not the athlete.” The AAU banned him and he struggled to make a living. (Page 233-234) I read Triumph for book club. The book is well researched and provides not only the history of the Olympics and WWII before America’s involvement, but it also paints an accurate portrait of racial prejudice and civil rights in Germany and the United States. Jesse Owens was the fastest man in America yet he was still considered inferior because of his race. I believe this should be required reading in schools but it’s probably on the banned list. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
In 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers looming, an African-American son of sharecroppers set three world records and won an unprecedented four gold medals, single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy. The story of Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympic Games is that of a high-profile athlete giving a performance that transcends sports--but it is also the intimate and complex tale of the courage of one remarkable man. From the start, American participation in the games was controversial--a boycott attempt was thwarted by the president of the American Olympic Committee. Owens was befriended by a German rival, who helped Owens win the gold medal at his own expense; two Jewish sprinters were, at the last moment, denied the chance to compete for the United States out of misguided politeness to the Nazi hosts; and a myth was born that Hitler himself had snubbed Owens.--From publisher description. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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