Blessed with a runner's body and dedicated coaches, Jesse mastered the arts of sprinting and jumping and became the focal point of the 1936 Olympics that many Americans, suspicious of Nazi Germany, wanted to boycott. Book Reviews 165 James Cleveland Owens was born in Alabama in 1913, but as a youngster he and his family?like so many other African Americans from that state?moved to Cleveland, Ohio. In Triumph, Jeremy Schaap tells the riveting tale of Owens's heroics, while successfully placing them in a broader historical context. It was a day that would set the stage for his dominant performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
On May 25, 1935, Ohio State University track phenomenon Jesse Owens broke or tied four world records at Ferry Field inAnn Arbor. Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics. Jason Friedman Michigan State University Jeremy Schaap. Savage's book provides an important analysis of the Bush-Cheney administration, and by extension, of the Ford-Rockefeller administration whence their careers came. Through descriptions of 9/11, Abu Ghraib, signing statements, and other infamous events, Savage adds contemporary and historical context to the scandals and controversies that have sensationalized the Bush-Cheney years. After explaining how Cheney's mindset came about and how he and Bush rose to power, Savage contextualizes some of the major events in the first six years of their administration that demonstrate the return to an imperial presidency. Savage proves how Cheney progressively made good on his promise, promoting an expansion of presidential power. Cheney vowed that if he ever served in the White House again, he would not let the president he served be similarly pushed around. As one of Ford's two chiefs of staff (Donald Rumsfeld was the other), Cheney observed an emboldened Congress, overcompensating for the perils of Watergate, stymie the powers of the presidency. Savage argues that Cheney has assumed a prominent and powerful role as vice president, which is unlike any of his predecessors, and that Cheney's role in the Ford administration shaped the vice president he would later become. However, more important to Savage's evidentiary history of the modern imperial presidency than Bush's heritage is Cheney's origins. Bush's rise to power twenty-five years later. By giving Bush, Sr., his big break, Ford paved the way for George H.
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