Profiles the lives and careers of Greg Barton, Dick Button, Eddie Eagan, Eric Heiden, Greg Louganis, Billy Mills, Edwin Moses, Dan O'Brien, Jesse Owens, and Mark Spitz.
Profiles ten of the best American women's Olympic gold medalists in history including Babe Didrikson, Peggy Fleming, Florence Griffith-Joyner, and Kristi Yamaguchi.
the untold story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics
Schaap, Jeremy
2007
Presents a comprehensive analysis of the 1936 Olympic games hosted by Germany, America's threat to boycott the games, and the four Olympic gold medals won by African-American athlete Jesse Owens, whose performance crushed Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy.