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Daniel James Brown
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
by Daniel James Brown
Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat follows nine working-class rowers from Depression-era Washington to the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It's narrative nonfiction that earns its emotion the hard way, through grain elevators and blistered hands before it ever reaches the starting line.