Jesse Owens : an American life
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.
Print Book, English, 2006
University of Illinois Press ; Combined Academic [distributor], Urbana, Ill., Chesham, 2006
Biographies
304 pages ; 24 cm
9780252073694, 025207369X
1063342572
Originally published: New York: Free; London: Collier Macmillan, 1986
Includes index