Daniel James Brown’s The Boys in the Boat celebrates nine American men and their quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. These men were able to transform the sport and obtain the attention of millions of Americans. These men came from nowhere and nurtured the impossible dream of gold. They came from places like logging camps, shipyards, and small towns from the West. However, in a boathouse at the University of Washington they were able to find one another as well as a dream of the Olympic Gold. They crushed the two time Olympic champions at the University of California. They beat the best crews in the East. They took on the rowing elite of the British boys of Oxford and Cambridge. Eventually they crushed the world record giving them the
