Seabiscuit: An American Legend Hardcover - 2001
by Laura Hillenbrand
One of the greatest legends of the 20th century, Seabiscuit was a discarded, bottom-level runner who became a champion with the help of three men: a trainer, an owner, and a jockey. This is the spellbinding tale of how they did it.
Summary
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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.
Details
- Title Seabiscuit: An American Legend
- Author Laura Hillenbrand
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House Trade, New York
- Date 2001-03-06
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780375502910 / 0375502912
- Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
- Dimensions 9.54 x 6.54 x 1.29 in (24.23 x 16.61 x 3.28 cm)
- Reading level 990
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Seabiscuit (Race horse), Race horses - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001267852
- Dewey Decimal Code 798.4
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Citations
- Booklist, 01/01/2001, Page 900
- Business Week, 03/26/2001, Page 27
- Christian Century, 10/09/2002, Page 22
- Kirkus Reviews, 01/01/2001, Page 33
- Library Journal, 04/01/2001, Page 106
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 11/01/2000, Page 56
- New York Times, 03/11/2001, Page 12
- New Yorker (The), 03/26/2001, Page 97
- Newsweek, 03/12/2001, Page 73
- People Weekly, 05/14/2001, Page 54
- Publishers Weekly, 01/01/2001, Page 74
- School Library Journal, 11/01/2001, Page 194
- Time, 04/02/2001, Page 72
- USA Today, 12/18/2002, Page 1
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