Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's OlympicsThis New York Times best selling author's account of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin offers a "vivid portrait not just of Owens but of '30s Germany and America" (Sports Illustrated). At the 1936 Olympics, against a backdrop of swastikas and goose stepping storm troopers, an African American son of sharecroppers won a staggering four gold medals, single handedly falsifying Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy. The story of Jesse Owens at the Berlin games is

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