Three kings : race, class, and the barrier-breaking rivals who launched the modern Olympic age
(2024)
By:
Balf, Todd
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
797.210922/BALF,T
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Ashland, OR : Blackstone Publishing, 2024
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9798874714178, 9798874714178
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The first globally broadcast swim match, the one-hundred-meter at the 1924 Olympics, saw three great swimmers shatter records and invite unprecendented scrutiny about race, class, and celebrity. This book traces the careers and rivalries of these men and the epochal times they lived in