BY FROMA HARROP A best-selling sports book, The Boys in the Boat, describes the unlikely path of working-class blokes to gold-medal glory at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. There’s lots about rowing, but what struck this reader most was author Daniel James Brown’s account of the tough lot of laborers in the Northwest during the Great Depression. This is a Seabiscuit story starring humans instead of a horse. What the University of Washington rowing team had […]
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