9780449005613
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Laura Hillenbrand
ISBN 13: 9780449005613
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Softcover
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Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. Three men changed Seabiscuit’s fortunes:
Charles Howard was a onetime bicycle repairman who introduced the automobile to the western United States and became an overnight millionaire. When he needed a trainer for his new racehorses, he hired Tom Smith, a mysterious mustang breaker from the Colorado plains. Smith urged Howard to buy Seabiscuit for a bargain-basement price, then hired as his jockey Red Pollard, a failed boxer who was blind in one eye, half-crippled, and prone to quoting passages from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Over four years, these unlikely partners survived a phenomenal run of bad fortune, conspiracy, and severe injury to transform Seabiscuit from a neurotic, pathologically indolent also-ran into an American sports icon.
Author Laura Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race.
From the Hardcover edition.
Review:
"[A]n absorbing book that stands as the model of sportswriting at its best."
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 03/06/2001
Review:"Laura Hillenbrand definitely gets it. SEABISCUIT is straight-up sportswriting, which in itself makes plenty of allowances for highly colored language and drama that's sometimes, necessarily, a little rigged. That's part of the game, too: If you want to meet the champion, you have to get through his retinue."
Sally Eckhoff, Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.), 03/11/2001
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