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Profiles the four men who competed to represent the U.S. as its lone single sculler in 1984
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"A PENETRATING, FASCINATING AND REMARKABLY SUSPENSEFUL NARRATIVE."
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In The Amateurs, David Halberstam once again displays the unique brand of reportage, both penetrating and supple, that distinguished his bestselling The Best and the Brightest and October 1964. This time he has taken for his subject the dramatic and special world of amateur rowing. While other athletes are earning fortunes in salaries and-or endorsements, the oarsmen gain fame only with each other and strive without any hope of financial reward.
What drives these men to endure a physical pain known to no other sport? Who are they? Where do they come from? How do they regard themselves and their competitors? What have they sacrificed, and what inner demons have they appeased? In answering these questions, David Halberstam takes as his focus the
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David Halberstam was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author of numerous books, including The Best and the Brightest, The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, Summer of '49, Playing for Keeps, and War in a Time of Peace. He died in April 2007.
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- PublisherWilliam Morrow & Co
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0688049486
- ISBN 13 9780688049485
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages221
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