Boys in the Boat Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Name: Boys in the Boat Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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ISBN: 9780143125471

ISBN-10: 0143125478

ISBN-13: 9780143125471

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Authors: Daniel James Brown

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The New York Timesbestselling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi GermanyOut of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of timesthe improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant.It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/27/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.48" wide x 8.45" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Daniel James Brown is the author of The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride, Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894, and The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He has taught writing at San Jose State University and Stanford University.