This was a great book!!!! I listened to the audio version which was very well done. It really contains something for everyone! Sports, a bit of romance, war, adversity - well just everything really. For sure it contains the agony of defeat and the joy of winning. This is what I love about non-fiction. It really happened and it is every bit as entertaining as a novel. A large part of the book centers around Joe Rantz. (he is the man the author met shortly before Joe died). Joe has a childhood that is very sad. When his dad remarries after the death of his mother Joe finds himself at odds with Tula, the truly wicked stepmother. It is the Depression and she is only worried about her own children - and so Joe is put out on his own. His father did nothing to stop that. So Joe knows he is going to have to work hard for any success. He begins rowing for the University of Washington. Normally the boys work their way up to the senior boat. But the year that Joe was a freshman there was a dynamite group of freshmen who began a journey that would eventually take them to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. The book is filled with great stories that will keep your interest from beginning to end. After I finished listening to the book I went to Google and was able to find clips of the actual event!
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