The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal - Hardcover

Halberstam, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688049486 ISBN 13: 9780688049485

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1985

Synopsis

Profiles the four men who competed to represent the U.S. as its lone single sculler in 1984

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

shing . . . Moving . . . One of the best books ever written about a sport."
*Walter Clemons
Newsweek

"A PENETRATING, FASCINATING AND REMARKABLY SUSPENSEFUL NARRATIVE."
*David Guy
Chicago Tribune
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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0688049486
• ISBN 13: 9780688049485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 221