A Race Apart

Résumé du livre

A Race Apart is historical fiction based on true facts. The characters portrayed tell the story of a forgotten Olympian, a Jewish runner who had dreams of glory--to race as an American Jew among one hundred thousand screaming Nazis and win a race for his race, in the Olympiastaad in Berlin. The story of those Olympic Games are long past. But race prejudice is as fervent as it ever was. How close were American capitalist interests to Nazi totalitarian interests? It was as close as race and blood.Characters in this novel, based on historical facts, including well known sports and Olympic heroes, are fiction, including the participants of the 4x100 meter Olympic team, those who ran for the American squad, in Berlin, August, 1936, or those whom did not compete because they were Jewish. Originally published separately, Ghost Runners, an Olympic Dream Betrayed, and The White Bridge can now be read together as one novel, the truly never-ending story of Joshua Sellers that is relevant today about American Anti-Semitism and race prejudice, so relevant even today, when the betrayal of the American dream is but another headline away.Then, less than three years had happened since the emancipation of women as cub reporter, Ginger Lee, makes her way forward in male company. Her story is also his story. Joshua and Ginger must struggle together, or world's apart. They have, like all of us, separate but equal destinies. Those can never be a race apart.