Jesse Owens
Subtitle: an American life
By: William J. Baker
Edition: 1st Illinois pbk
Series: Sport and society
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Owens, Jesse, -- 1913-1980; Track and field athletes -- United States -- Biography
Description: 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
Notes: Originally published: New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1986

Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-273) and index