Belongs on all history of sports or sports journalism syllabi. . . . Six Minutes in Berlin is among the best works of sports history.
American Journalism A most wonderful read.
Mystic Seaport Magazine The stroke-by-stroke story of the Huskies' come-from-behind victory is a masterpiece of sports journalism. . . . the ... Read moretext reads as if Socolow had discovered that his true vocation is to be a novelist. He conveys the excitement of the final race so skillfully that he accelerated the pulse of at least one octogenarian historian. Six Minutes in Berlin is not just richly informative about sportscasting and eight-oared racing; it is also a good read.
Journal of American History A detailed text that combines a period in sports rowing history with the beginning of modern sports broadcasting. . . . Recommended.
Choice Belongs on all history of sports or sports journalism syllabi. . . . Six Minutes in Berlin is among the best works of sports history.
American Journalism Socolow... is well placed to set that Olympic final in the contact of a Nazi propaganda machine that found its fullest express at those Games... the author's finer brushstrokes still paint glimmers of the horrors to come, but also the manifold personalities compromising the uniquely American crew, and the sheer competitive thrill of the final itself, whose wake can still gently lift the world 80 years on.
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