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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold

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First published: 2013
Pages: 463

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Download or read this book online here. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold by Daniel James Brown is an extraordinary true story set against the backdrop of the Great Depression and Adolf the German leader’s rise to power. Central to the story is Joe Rantz, a working-class teenager who rows not for glory but to regain his shattered self-regard and find a place he can call home. With themes of teamwork, family, and economic class, this book chronicles how nine determined boys transformed the sport of rowing and captured the attention of millions.

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Daniel James Brown

The Boys in the Boat exists because Brown's elderly neighbour, dying in the house next door, turned out to have rowed in the University of Washington eight that won the 1936 Olympics in Berlin in front of the German leadership.