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Steele, Philip

Jesse Owens

56 pp. | Heinemann | March, 2001 | Library ISBN 1-58810-059-6 $$24.22
(4) 4-6 Heinemann Profiles series. Adequate for reports, this biography of the African-American athlete details how he overcame many obstacles to represent America in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. The layout is busy and the text occasionally choppy, but captioned color and black-and-white photos, along with text boxes featuring excerpts from original documents, add interest. A time line is included. Bib., glos., ind.
Reviewer: Cyrisse Jaffee

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