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Mar 19, 2020
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Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
By Deborah Riley Draper and Travis Thrasher
Simon & Schuster, £20, hardback, 400 pages
esse Owens wasn’t the only African-American athlete to travel from the US to take part in the 1936 Summer Olympics, hosted by Germany in the throes of Nazism. This account explores the lives of the 17
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