In Black and White by Donald Mcrae

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In Black and White by Donald Mcrae

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This biography of two great atheletes recounts the political legacy, extraordinary personal links and enduring friendship between four-times Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens, and Heavyweight World Boxing Champion Joe Louis, black athletes born in an America demeaned by racism and poverty.

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In Black and White by Donald Mcrae

The extraordinary biography of two of the world's greatest athletes - Jesse Owens and Joe Louis. Jesse Owens and Joe Louis have been hailed as American icons for the last sixty-five years, yet they were unfailingly human in everything they achieved and endured: as vulnerable as they were courageous; as troubled as they were brilliant; as restless in themselves as they are now rooted in history. IN BLACK AND WHITE will tell, for the first time, the story of the shared political legacy, extraordinary personal links and enduring friendship between 4-times Olympic gold medallist Jesse Owens, and Heavyweight World Boxing Champion Joe Louis, black athletes born in an America demeaned by racism and poverty. Award-winning sports journalist Donald McRae explores these two most revered of sportsmen whose finest achievements cannot be diminished by their later tragedies; their little-known stretches of debt, despair, drug-addiction and mental illness as they struggled to find a life beyond the track and the ring. It is a deeply personal story of two of the greatest athletes the world has ever known.
Don McRae was born in South Africa in 1961. He has lived in London for the last sixteen years where he has worked as a sports feature-writer for THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER and ESQUIRE. He is the author of three books, NOTHING PERSONAL, DARK TRADE, winner of William Hill, 1996 and WINTER COLOURS, shortlisted for the William Hill, 1998.
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ISBN 13 9780743207607
ISBN 10 0743207602
Titel In Black and White
Autor Donald Mcrae
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Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Simon & Schuster Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 2002-10-21
Seitenanzahl 432
Preise Winner of William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2002
Hinweis auf dem Einband Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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