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Jesse Owens: An American Life

Jesse Owens: An American Life

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: It was okay.
Review: I think all books are good but can be better. This one I think is better but could be worse.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Myth Debunking story of an American hero
Review: OK, so Adolf Hitler did not snub Jesse Owens according to this book. There are more stories about him that have become myth but are not really true. Therefore this book is worth reading.

It chronicles his entire life from Alabama to Chicago and Arizona where he died in March 1980. Important figures in his life, important events etc. And of course his great feats at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin are mentioned. After this, his athletic career goes downhill and he enters in too many jobs, some good, some really bad. It is kinda sad to read bout all off them.

He was a conservative man and did not want to know of the Civil Rights movement in the 60's and 70's which made him clash with the newer black athletes.

On a darker side: his sexual escapades and troubles with the IRS are also mentioned. To me however this book seems far, it gives a balanced view of his life and is also very good to read. His friendship with a German athlete alone is a very nice but sad story, since his friend dies in 1944.

This story seems to me more to the truth than all the myths we hear about him, read it!


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