Jesse Owens: An American Life

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 superstar and exploding Hitler's myth of Aryan supremecy in the process. This is his biography.

• Author
• William J. Baker

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 304

• Series
• Sport and Society

• Publisher
• University of Illinois Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780252073694

• Characters
• Jesse Owens

• Genres
• biography

• Release date
• 2006