Item #55557 I HAVE CHANGED; ("A Shockingly Personal Statement in a Tragically Impersonal Time"--dust jacket front). Jesse Owens, Paul Neimark.
I HAVE CHANGED; ("A Shockingly Personal Statement in a Tragically Impersonal Time"--dust jacket front).

I HAVE CHANGED; ("A Shockingly Personal Statement in a Tragically Impersonal Time"--dust jacket front).

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1972. First edition. Review copy with publisher's review slip indicating publication date of August 26, 1972, and promo letter laid in reading in part, "Thirty-six years after his humiliation of Hitler, Jesse Owens has been invited by the German government to be a guest at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, beginning August 26th, publication date of I HAVE CHANGED." Jesse "the world’s fastest human" Owens, winner of four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics, relives his great races, tells stories of his friendships with Joe Louis, Martin Luther King, et al, and describes his evolution in thinking since publication of his first book, BLACKTHINK. Fine in fine dust jacket with touch of light soiling.
Item #55557

Price: $300.00

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