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The Boys In The Boat: Nine Americans And Their Epic Quest For Gold At The 1936 Berlin Olympics (2013)

by Daniel James Brown(Favorite Author)

4.25 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

067002581X (ISBN13: 9780670025817)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Viking Adult

review 1: A wonderful book. And I don't even row. I hardly know the first thing about rowing. This books feels a bit like Larson's books where he weaves a human interest story together with a major historical moment. Brown does an incredible job of cultivating all of the rowers and drawing vivid pictures of the West in the 1930's. Even though I knew what happened, the suspense was palpable! Wonderful.
review 2: I loved this book. I had never even thought about what it takes to be a part of a rowing team; this book brings it to life. So interesting, I will definitely be watching for the rowing teams at the next Olympics. It is also a very good story about the decade in which it took place. My heart bled for the little motherless boy whose step-mother didn't want... more him and whose father wouldn't fight for him. less

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