The Wonder Crew: The Untold Story of a Coach, Navy Rowing, and Olympic Immortality

THE WONDER CREW by Susan Saint Sing is the fascinating story of how the salty coach of the Annapolis crew team, Coach Richard Glendon, seized the sport of rowing first from the Ivy League schools and then the imposing British with a new style both uniquely American and very much his own. He took a group of young midshipmen with humble origins and dominated a sport once the domain of the privileged.