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Seabiscuit: An American Legend

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By Laura Hillenbrand; Laura Hillenbrand
Publisher Random House Publishing Group - (Ballantine Books)
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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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 crookedlegged racehorse with the sad tail. Three men changed Seabiscuits 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 bargainbasement price, then hired as his jockey Red Pollard, a failed boxer who was blind in one eye, halfcrippled, 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 alsoran into an American sports icon. Author Laura Hillenbrand brilliantly recreates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race. From the Hardcover edition.

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118992 words118,992 words
448 pages448 pages
Lexile 990LLexile 990L
Published 2002Published 2002

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