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The Boys in the Boat
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Daniel James Brown is a Seattle-area writer whose narrative histories include Under a Flaming Sky, The Indifferent Stars Above and Facing the Mountain.
In The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown tells the story of the University of Washington’s eight-oared crew, a group of working-class young men who rowed their way from the Depression-era Pacific Northwest to an Olympic gold medal in Hitler’s Berlin in 1936. At its center is Joe Rantz, a boy abandoned by his family who learns, in a racing shell, to trust other people again. Along the way the book introduces a quietly brilliant boatbuilder, a coach of very few words and a nation hungry for hope. You’ll learn how hardship can forge resilience, why the best teams surrender ego to a shared rhythm, and how nine ordinary young men achieved something extraordinary together.
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