The Boys on the Boat is an excellent book; looking into the lives of young rowers on an American rowing team and their path to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. The books seeks to teach a lesson of hard work brings success, as many of members of the team are from poorer families, and are seeking self-fulfillment from rowing that they might not've been able to get anywhere else.
This is nicely juxtaposed by the German rowing team, however, as they are a professional group who always had everything, and are seemingly unstoppable. However, they're also not the focus of the book, and we simply get glimpses into their lives, which nicely keeps the books focused on our American rowing heroes back home.
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