![]() The Boys in the Boat, originally published in 2013 and which in the ensuing years has spent 117 weeks in the top 10 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list, including 15 weeks at number one, has been compared by commentators and book reviewers to other Depression-era sports stories such as Laura Hillenbrand’s chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini in Unbroken, Jeremy Schaap’s account of the life of boxer James J. Long before his extraordinary life became the centerpiece of author Daniel James Brown’s book The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Joe Rantz was a student-athlete at Roosevelt High School in Seattle, Washington, whose participation in high school sports would lead to the opportunity to attend college and participate in the sport of rowing – endeavors that would provide a path not only to Olympic glory, but to redemption from a Dickensian boyhood of poverty, deprivation and abandonment during the Great Depression and to the development of a transcendent level of tenacity that empowered his survival of the type of unimaginably hardscrabble youth so commonplace among the members of what is now referred to as the Greatest Generation.
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