Who Was Jesse Owens?

Name: Who Was Jesse Owens?
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: James Buckley, Jr.
ISBN: 9780735206335

Author: James Buckley, Jr.

Series: Who Was?

Narrator: Charles Constant

Unabridged: 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 08/02/2016

Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Sports, Olympics & Paralympics, African American & Black Nonfiction, Track & Field

Synopsis

At the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, track and field star Jesse Owens ran himself straight into international glory by winning four gold medals. But the life of Jesse Owens is much more than a sports story. Born in rural Alabama under the oppressive Jim Crow laws, Owens's family suffered many hardships. As a boy he worked several jobs like delivering groceries and working in a shoe repair shop to make ends meet. But Owens defied the odds to become a sensational student athlete, eventually running track for Ohio State. He was chosen to compete in the Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany where Adolf Hitler was promoting the idea of “Aryan superiority.” Owens’s winning streak at the games humiliated Hitler and crushed the myth of racial supremacy once and for all.

About The Author

James Buckley, Jr. has written more than 50 books for kids, including Who Was Ernest Shackleton?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tito on April 26, 2018

very nice......more

Goodreads review by Andy on September 05, 2018

I wanted to try reading a biography to my kids. Since they have watched and remembered watching Usain Bolt in the Olympics, I thought reading about a past track star would be interesting to them. They liked it okay.......more

Goodreads review by Hunter on May 14, 2017

Who Was Jesse Owens by James Buckley Jr was an extremely informative nonfiction book about Jesse Owens. Ever since he was a boy, Jesse Owens was a runner. He was a grocery store delivery boy and he had to run to do that. Also he was a newspaper boy. Jesse is best known as an Olympic record setter. B......more

Goodreads review by Priya on February 02, 2017

Who was Jesse Onwens was an amazing and true book by James Buckley Jr. In this book a young boy was born and raised with a large poor family in Alabama. He really wanted to go to school so finally by the time he was thirteen his parents sent him to school. Another thing about Jesse is that he loved......more

Goodreads review by Mackenzie on March 15, 2017

The other latest book that I have read is Who was Jesse Owens? by James Buckley Jr. Jesse Owens came from a small town always running from place to place. He never walked. His only dream was to get into a college which no one in the Owens family had ever accomplished. He then got asked to join the t......more