Olympic Gold 1936: How the Image of Jesse Owens Crushed Hitler's Evil Myth cover

Olympic Gold 1936: How the Image of Jesse Owens Crushed Hitler's Evil Myth

Author: Burgan, Michael

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 7.3
Points 2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 9657
Points per Word 0.000207
Page Count 64
Points per Page 0.03125

Description

Jesse Owens's gold-medal winning feats at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin struck a mighty propaganda blow against Adolf Hitler. Photo and film captured Owens's stunning success and revealed how wrong Hitler was in his beliefs.