TY - BOOK AU - Mone,Gregory AU - Brown,Daniel TI - The boys in the boat: the true story of an American team's epic journey to win gold at the 1936 Olympics SN - 9781432850289 AV - GV796 .B764 2018 U1 - 797.12/3/0973 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Farmington Hills, Mich PB - Throndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Co. KW - University of Washington KW - History KW - sears KW - Rowing KW - United States KW - Rowers KW - Biography KW - Olympic games, 1936 (Berlin, Germany) KW - Large print books N1 - Includes index; 5.6; 5-8; Follett School Solutions; Accelerated Reader AR; UG; 8.4; 27.0; 167221; BR N2 - "Out of the depths of the Great Depression comes the astonishing tale of nine working-class boys from the American West who at the 1936 Olympics showed the world what true grit really meant. With rowers who were the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington's eight-oar crew was never expected to defeat the elite East Coast teams, yet they did, going on to shock the world by challenging the German boat rowing for Adolf Hitler"--Amazon.com ER -