Jesse Owens : An American Life

William J Baker
University of Illinois Press
9780252073694
0-252-07369-X

Born the tenth child of a poor Southern sharecropper and barely able to read or write, Jesse Owens went on to win an unprecedented four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, becoming an international.

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