copyright 1978; Logos International publishers, New Jersey; hardbound; Book Club Edition; very good condition; dust jacket very good.
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At the 1936 Olympic games held in Berlin, Adolf Hitler was out to prove that his Aryan race was superior to any other in the world. He failed.
Jesse Owens, a tall, lanky, black man from the sharecropping fields of Alabama and ghettos of Cleveland won four gold medals and proved to the world that superiority wasn't based on the color of one's skin or the cultural origin of one's parentage.
This is a remarkable self-portrait of the black man who carried this country to greatness in the 1936 Olympic Games. More than a retelling of the athletic triumphs and the personal tragedy of his life, Jesse is a remarkable spiritual pilgrimage.