Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics

9 best books like Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics (Jeremy Schaap): Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon, The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War, Anatomy for Runners: Unlocking Your Athletic Potential for Health, Speed, and Injury Prevention, Stillness Is the Key, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, Sacred Cows: A Lighthearted Look at Belief and Tradition Around the World, Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless, The Civil War (American Heritage)

Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon

Author	John Brant
ISBN	1594862621

John Brant re-creates the tense drama of the 1982 Boston Marathon—and the powerful forces of fate that drove these two athletes in the years afterwards
"One was a humble farm boy from Minnesota. The other was the most electrifying distance runner of his time. In 1982, they battled stride for stride...

The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote

Author	Elaine F. Weiss
ISBN	0525429727

The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political victories in American history: the down and dirty campaign to get the last state to ratify the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote.

"Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values...

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

Author	Joanne B. Freeman
ISBN	0374154775

The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War

In The Field of Blood, Joanne Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Freeman shows that the Capitol was...

Anatomy for Runners: Unlocking Your Athletic Potential for Health, Speed, and Injury Prevention

Author	Jay Dicharry
ISBN	1620871599

Tired of getting the same treatments from doctors that didn’t heal his joint and muscle pain from running, Jay Dicharry decided to combine different fields of clinical care, biomechanical analysis, and coaching to help you avoid common injuries and become the best runner you can be.

Running...

Stillness Is the Key

Author	Ryan Holiday
ISBN	0525538585

In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdom wildly popular with a new generation of leaders in sports, politics, and technology. In his new book, Stillness Is the Key, Holiday draws on timeless Stoic and Buddhist philosophy to show why slowing...

The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

Author	Robert Iger
ISBN	0399592091

A grand vision defined: The CEO of Disney, one of Time's most influential people of 2019, shares the ideas and values he embraced to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world and inspire the people who bring the magic to life.

Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005,...

Sacred Cows: A Lighthearted Look at Belief and Tradition Around the World

Author	Seth Andrews
ISBN	1478749962

Did you know God forbids the tying of shoelaces on Saturday? Or that humans emit an color aura which can only be discerned with a Third Eye? That bountiful harvest requires the flinging of a live goat from a church bell tower? That instead of wishing upon a star, we can wish upon a...cow? Well into the 21st...

Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless

Author

Greta Christina

Why are atheists angry?

Is it because they're selfish, joyless, lacking in meaning, and alienated from God?

Or is it because they have legitimate reasons to be angry -- and are ready to do something about it?

Armed with passionate outrage, absurdist humor, and calm intelligence,...

The Civil War (American Heritage)

Author	Bruce Catton
ISBN	0618001875

Infinitely readable and absorbing, Bruce Catton’s The Civil War is one of the most widely read general histories of the war available in a single volume.
 
Introduced by the critically acclaimed Civil War historian James M. McPherson, The Civil War vividly traces one of the most moving...