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Seabiscuit: Waterstones Reading the 21st Century

Autor Laura Hillenbrand
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2002

Add descriptionIn their place, modern America was born. But what defined this new era? Nothing more than the story of Seabiscuit, a stunted colt with asymmetrical knees that had for two years been hacked around no-good race tracks leading to permanent leg damage. Yet by 1937 Seabiscuit could draw crowds of 60,000 and had more newspaper column inches devoted to him than Mussolini, Hitler or Roosevelt, his popularity peaking during his appearances at the Santa Anita Handicap. America had gone to the races for the first time since the Depression and fallen in love with a misshapen colt of great character. Now it wanted a winner. 'Seabiscuit' is also the story of three men: Tom Smith, a former Wild West showman was the trainer; Red Pollard, abandoned by his poverty-stricken family at a race track became the rider; and Charles Howard, a pioneer car manufacturer in San Francisco in the 1920s was the owner and financier. These three combined to create the legend of Seabiscuit and epitomise a dream for the emerging new America.

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ISBN-13: 9781841150925
ISBN-10: 1841150924
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: portraits
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Seria Waterstones Reading the 21st Century

Locul publicării:United Kingdom