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All together : the formidable journey to the gold with the 1964 Olympic crew / William A. Stowe
Edited by IUniverse - 2005
In this book on the spectacular races at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, Bill Stowe writes with the same deadly accuracy and drive that he showed as the stroke of that crew. He writes not as his own remembrances would be so long after the fact, but rather in the tightly woven factual web of interviews of rowers from around the world. This is a compelling book because it develops the diverse backgrounds and experiences that a small group of men brought for the sole purpose of winning a gold medal in the Olympic. It was so momentous that this feat has not beenm repeated for the United States for forty years, and then only with the force of a truly national effort and all of the weight and backing that it brings.