Seabiscuit : An American Legend

English

Series: Ballantine Readers Circle Ser.

ISBN: 0449005615

EAN: 9780449005613

Category: Sports & Recreation / Horse Racing

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Release Date: 03/22/2002

Synopsis: Laura Hillenbrand, author of the runaway phenomenonUnbroken, brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story in this #1 New York Times bestseller. 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. From the Hardcover edition.

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Seabiscuit : An American Legend

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.97 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.19 inches

Weight: 12.52 oz

Pages: 448