Reply #22: Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics

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On Sunday, March 11 at 3:00 pm
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Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics
Jeremy Schaap
Watch now - http://www.booktv.org/ram/history/0307/btv030307_1.ram

Jeremy Schaap tells the story of Olympic sprinter Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals at the Berlin games in Germany in 1936. Schaap opines on the historical importance of Owens, who was an African American athlete and whose victories at the games flew in the face of Hitlers' ideas of Aryan supremacy. The author is in conversation with Bert Gambini, Executive Producer of the Meet the Author Series at public radio station WBFO, Buffalo.

Jeremy Schaap is an ESPN anchor and author of "Cinderella Man: James Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History."