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    Who Was Jesse Owens?
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    Who Was Jesse Owens?
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    Who Was Jesse Owens?

    Written by James Buckley, Jr.

    Narrated by Charles Constant

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    At the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, track and field star Jesse Owens ran himself straight into international glory by winning four gold medals. But the life of Jesse Owens is much more than a sports story. Born in rural Alabama under the oppressive Jim Crow laws, Owens's family suffered many hardships. As a boy he worked several jobs like delivering groceries and working in a shoe repair shop to make ends meet. But Owens defied the odds to become a sensational student athlete, eventually running track for Ohio State. He was chosen to compete in the Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany where Adolf Hitler was promoting the idea of "Aryan superiority."  Owens's winning streak at the games humiliated Hitler and crushed the myth of racial supremacy once and for all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 2, 2016
    ISBN9780735206335
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    Who Was Jesse Owens?
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    James Buckley, Jr.

    Buckley is the author of more than 200 nonfiction books for kids, including 14 titles in the New York Times-bestselling Who Was…? biography series. He has written for Scholastic, DK Publishing, National Geographic Kids, Discovery Books, and many others. He is also the author of nine books in the Show Me History! graphic nonfiction series. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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