7 eur + 1.60 de Portes (livro de 340 gramas, 1 eur envio correio editorial + .60 eur de envelope almofadado.)

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Jeremy Schaap – Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics - A Mariner Book, a division of Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 2008 (1ª edição absoluta na mesma editora, um ano antes, edição Hardcover), 272 páginas.

Livro em muito bom estado, como novo, tem apenas a ligeira dobra que se apercebe na contracapa, foto 3, em cima, à direita, ao lado de ""Owens""

De resto, miolo em muito bom estado, sem notas, sublinhados ou assinatura de posse, mas com um autocolante de oferta na página de rosto (foto 5).

Paperback

Ilustrado.

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Review da Publisher's weekly:

Written as though the film treatment were already completed, Schaap's chronicle of Jesse Owens's journey to and glorious triumph at the 1936 Berlin Olympics is snappy and dramatic, with an eye for the rousing climax, through curiously slight on follow-through.

Starting with Owens as the well-feted ex-athlete in the 1950s, Schaap (an ESPN anchor and author of Cinderella Man ) flashes back to Owens's childhood in 1920s Cleveland, where junior high coach Charles Riley spotted his astounding physique and near limitless potential for track and field.

Owens seems so perfectly made for running and jumping that the following years of ever-increasing athletic and popular success are less exciting than preordained.

By the time the "Ebony Antelope" (as one of many adoring newspapermen had anointed him) was ready for Berlin, his success was practically guaranteed.

The real drama of Schaap's book, which surprisingly skimps on Owens the person, comes in the politically fractious runup to Berlin (for the ceremony-obsessed Hitler, "a fascist fantasy come true").

While the story has been told many times, Schaap makes good use of his prodigious research and access to the Owens family, even digging up the fact that Owens's oft-repeated claim he was snubbed by Hitler and the Berlin crowd was very likely untrue.