seabiscuit an american legend by laura hillenbrand

JUST AS COMPELLING TODAY AS IT WAS IN 1938. shows an extraordinary talent for describing a horse race so vividly that the reader feels like the rider.

More than just a horse s tale, because the humans who owned, trained, and rode Seabiscuit are equally fascinating. 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. 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. When he needed a trainer for his new racehorses, he hired Tom Smith, a mysterious mustang breaker from the Colorado plains. 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. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tale. 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. Publisher: Random House, New York Publication Date: 2001 Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: As New Dust Jacket Condition: As New Edition: Stated First Edition Hand Signed by Author Laura Hillenbrand on Title Page. OL18178327W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 87.39 Pages 454 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0345465083 Urn:lcp:seabiscuitameric00hill_0:epub:c7227b84-2780-43e6-9b70-660a0931c3f1 Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier seabiscuitameric00hill_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3wt15247 Invoice 59 Isbn 0449005615Ġ0349006 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary O元571224M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:12:56.718489 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA1770910 Boxid_2 BWB220140827 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīook Drive Edition 1st ed.

Seabiscuit an american legend by laura hillenbrand