Boys in the Boat
          Daniel James Brown.
                     
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Let's see, what can I say about this book.  It was informative, repetitive, boring, interesting and heartwarming.

Some of the informative things were:
      The work it takes to build a rowing shell in the 1930's, all by hand.
       How many strokes per minute it takes to make the shell move slow or fast.  Up to 44 strokes per minute, all 8 oarsmen in sync!!!
      A little about the dust storms that ravaged the midwest.
      The propaganda Hitler used at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
      How exciting the gold medal rowing race was (like the Miracle on Ice in the 1980 Olympics) and finally, how much heart and caring these 9 boys had for each other and the art of rowing.

The middle of the book was a little boring but not enough to make me want to stop.

There were so many hardships these boys had to overcome and rowing was considered an East coast sport.  Yale, Harvard, Cambridge had the elite rowing clubs, not the West coast with their blue collar laborers and not the University of Washington.

And the final race for the gold in Berlin, Oh my, how exciting.   Mr. Brown wrote it so I felt like I was there holding my breath for these boys.