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- ISBN
- 9780375413247
- Book Title
- Native American Son : the Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.8in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Native Americans, Sports
- Item Width
- 6.7in
- Item Weight
- 34.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 496 Pages
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The first comprehensive biography of the legendary figure who defined excellence in American sports: Jim Thorpe, arguably the greatest all-around athlete the United States has ever seen. With clarity and a fine eye for detail, Kate Buford traces the pivotal moments of Thorpe's incomparable career: growing up in the tumultuous Indian Territory of Oklahoma; leading the Carlisle Indian Industrial School football team, coached by the renowned "Pop" Warner, to victories against the country's finest college teams; winning gold medals in the 1912 Olympics pentathlon and decathlon; defining the burgeoning sport of professional football and helping to create what would become the National Football League; and playing long, often successful-and previously unexamined-years in professional baseball. But, at the same time, Buford vividly depicts the difficulties Thorpe faced as a Native American-and a Native American celebrity at that-early in the twentieth century. We also see the infamous loss of his Olympic medals, stripped from him because he had previously played professional baseball, an event that would haunt Thorpe for the rest of his life. We see his struggles with alcoholism and personal misfortune, losing his first child and moving from one failed marriage to the next, coming to distrust many of the hands extended to him. Finally, we learn the details of his vigorous advocacy for Native American rights while he chased a Hollywood career, and the truth behind the supposed reinstatement of his Olympic record in 1982. Here is the story-long overdue and brilliantly told-of a complex, iconoclastic, profoundly talented man whose life encompassed both tragic limitations and truly extraordinary achievements.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375413243
ISBN-13
9780375413247
eBay Product ID (ePID)
81820889
Product Key Features
Book Title
Native American Son : the Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Native Americans, Sports
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.8in
Item Width
6.7in
Item Weight
34.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gv697.T5.B84 2010
Reviews
“Diligently researched . . . Buford lays firm, clear historical groundwork for the reservation life and Indian world in which Thorpe grew up . . . Thorpe, in Buford’s account a likable and engaging if feckless man, seems tragically destined to wander forever, the fastest itinerant in the world.� -Jay Jennings, The New York Times “A professional biographer has proved what sound research and skillful writing can do: reveal a singular man, animate the times of his life, and illuminate the complexities of our world today, which Jim Thorpe helped to shape.� -American Heritage “This is the definitive biography of a legendary figure in American history, in and out of sports . . . An essential purchase.� -Library Journal “Buford . . . knows about mythic heroes and draws a complex portrait of Jim Thorpe: from his superhuman athletic talents to his all-too-human flaws.� -Steven V. Roberts, The Washington Post “This book is written with razor-sharp clarity, rock-solid scholarship, and a prose that is as elegantly executed as it is at times heartbreaking. Native American Son, meticulously researched, is a book that finally sets the record straight to provide justice at last to a legitimate American hero.� -Larry Cox, Tucson Citizen “Impeccably researched . . . This retrospective is not the first to tackle the complex life of Jim Thorpe, but it’s the most comprehensive . . . Captures Thorpe’s breathtaking highs and heartrending lows.� - Kirkus “From the opening paragraphs I realized that Native American Son was going to be gripping and illuminating. Kate Buford not only tells us a great deal we never knew about a legitimate American icon, she tells us a great deal about an America of which we may not have been fully aware, and does so in splendid prose.� -Ira Berkow “As an athlete, Jim Thorpe was a force of nature. His achievements, across the board, remain unsurpassed. For many years we have needed a fair and comprehensive story of his life. Now we have it. Kate Buford's biography of Thorpe is a first-rate example of the genre. She has written-with clarity, insight, objectivity, and inspiration-a definitive work. Here is an evocation of triumph and tragedy, ans a uniquely American story.� -N. Scott Momaday, "From the opening paragraphs I realized thatNative American Sonwas going to be gripping and illuminating. Kate Buford not only tells us a great deal we never knew about a legitimate American icon, she tells us a great deal about an America of which we may not have been fully aware, and does so in splendid prose." -Ira Berkow "America's first celebrity athlete-still perhaps its greatest-has finally gotten the solid, absorbing, clear-eyed biography that lets us cheer and weep for him, as well as understand him." -Robert Lipsyte "Kate Buford takes a legend as American as Manifest Destiny and animates it with stunning detail and gritty truth. Native American Son is the honest and sometimes painful story of the creation and exploitation of celebrity, of hero-worship and bigotry, of athletic grandeur and human frailty. This is the real Jim Thorpe story." -Rob Fleder, Executive Editor ofSports Illustrated(1986-2007) "As an athlete, Jim Thorpe was a force of nature. His achievements, across the board, remain unsurpassed. For many years we have needed a fair and comprehensive story of his life. Now we have it. Kate Buford's biography of Thorpe is a first-rate example of the genre. She has written-with clarity, insight, objectivity, and inspiration-a definitive work. Here is an evocation of triumph and tragedy, ans a uniquely American story." -N. Scott Momaday "Impeccably researched . . . Captures Thorpe's breathtaking highs and heartrending lows." -Kirkus , "Diligently researched . . . Buford lays firm, clear historical groundwork for the reservation life and Indian world in which Thorpe grew up . . . Thorpe, in Buford's account a likable and engaging if feckless man, seems tragically destined to wander forever, the fastest itinerant in the world." -Jay Jennings, The New York Times Book Review "A professional biographer has proved what sound research and skillful writing can do: reveal a singular man, animate the times of his life, and illuminate the complexities of our world today, which Jim Thorpe helped to shape." -American Heritage "Compelling . . . Exhilarating . . . Buford is persuasive when she insists that, both for better and for worse, Jim Thorpe's true story is indeed stranger than most fictional tales of rising and falling heroes." -Michael R. Stevens, Christianity Today Books and Culture "This is the definitive biography of a legendary figure in American history, in and out of sports . . . An essential purchase." -Library Journal "Buford . . . knows about mythic heroes and draws a complex portrait of Jim Thorpe: from his superhuman athletic talents to his all-too-human flaws." -Steven V. Roberts, The Washington Post "This book is written with razor-sharp clarity, rock-solid scholarship, and a prose that is as elegantly executed as it is at times heartbreaking. Native American Son, meticulously researched, is a book that finally sets the record straight to provide justice at last to a legitimate American hero." -Larry Cox, Tucson Citizen "An absorbing American story." -Steve Kaufman, Louisville Courier-Journal "Impeccably researched . . . This retrospective is not the first to tackle the complex life of Jim Thorpe, but it's the most comprehensive . . . Captures Thorpe's breathtaking highs and heartrending lows." - Kirkus "From the opening paragraphs I realized that Native American Son was going to be gripping and illuminating. Kate Buford not only tells us a great deal we never knew about a legitimate American icon, she tells us a great deal about an America of which we may not have been fully aware, and does so in splendid prose." -Ira Berkow "As an athlete, Jim Thorpe was a force of nature. His achievements, across the board, remain unsurpassed. For many years we have needed a fair and comprehensive story of his life. Now we have it. Kate Buford's biography of Thorpe is a first-rate example of the genre. She has written-with clarity, insight, objectivity, and inspiration-a definitive work. Here is an evocation of triumph and tragedy, ans a uniquely American story." -N. Scott Momaday From the Hardcover edition., "Diligently researched . . . Buford lays firm, clear historical groundwork for the reservation life and Indian world in which Thorpe grew up . . . Thorpe, in Buford's account a likable and engaging if feckless man, seems tragically destined to wander forever, the fastest itinerant in the world." -Jay Jennings, The New York Times Book Review "A professional biographer has proved what sound research and skillful writing can do: reveal a singular man, animate the times of his life, and illuminate the complexities of our world today, which Jim Thorpe helped to shape." -American Heritage "Compelling . . . Exhilarating . . . Buford is persuasive when she insists that, both for better and for worse, Jim Thorpe's true story is indeed stranger than most fictional tales of rising and falling heroes." -Michael R. Stevens, Christianity Today Books and Culture "This is the definitive biography of a legendary figure in American history, in and out of sports . . . An essential purchase." -Library Journal "Buford . . . knows about mythic heroes and draws a complex portrait of Jim Thorpe: from his superhuman athletic talents to his all-too-human flaws." -Steven V. Roberts, The Washington Post "This book is written with razor-sharp clarity, rock-solid scholarship, and a prose that is as elegantly executed as it is at times heartbreaking. Native American Son, meticulously researched, is a book that finally sets the record straight to provide justice at last to a legitimate American hero." -Larry Cox, Tucson Citizen "An absorbing American story." -Steve Kaufman, Louisville Courier-Journal "Impeccably researched . . . This retrospective is not the first to tackle the complex life of Jim Thorpe, but it's the most comprehensive . . . Captures Thorpe's breathtaking highs and heartrending lows." - Kirkus "From the opening paragraphs I realized that Native American Son was going to be gripping and illuminating. Kate Buford not only tells us a great deal we never knew about a legitimate American icon, she tells us a great deal about an America of which we may not have been fully aware, and does so in splendid prose." -Ira Berkow "As an athlete, Jim Thorpe was a force of nature. His achievements, across the board, remain unsurpassed. For many years we have needed a fair and comprehensive story of his life. Now we have it. Kate Buford's biography of Thorpe is a first-rate example of the genre. She has written-with clarity, insight, objectivity, and inspiration-a definitive work. Here is an evocation of triumph and tragedy, ans a uniquely American story." -N. Scott Momaday, “From the opening paragraphs I realized that Native American Son was going to be gripping and illuminating. Kate Buford not only tells us a great deal we never knew about a legitimate American icon, she tells us a great deal about an America of which we may not have been fully aware, and does so in splendid prose.� -Ira Berkow "America's first celebrity athlete-still perhaps its greatest-has finally gotten the solid, absorbing, clear-eyed biography that lets us cheer and weep for him, as well as understand him." -Robert Lipsyte “Kate Buford takes a legend as American as Manifest Destiny and animates it with stunning detail and gritty truth. Native American Son is the honest and sometimes painful story of the creation and exploitation of celebrity, of hero-worship and bigotry, of athletic grandeur and human frailty. This is the real Jim Thorpe story.� -Rob Fleder, Executive Editor of Sports Illustrated (1986-2007) “As an athlete, Jim Thorpe was a force of nature. His achievements, across the board, remain unsurpassed. For many years we have needed a fair and comprehensive story of his life. Now we have it. Kate Buford's biography of Thorpe is a first-rate example of the genre. She has written-with clarity, insight, objectivity, and inspiration-a definitive work. Here is an evocation of triumph and tragedy, ans a uniquely American story.� -N. Scott Momaday “A professional biographer has proved what sound research and skillful writing can do: reveal a singular man, animate the times of his life, and illuminate the complexities of our world today, which Jim Thorpe helped to shape.� -American Heritage “Impeccably researched . . . This retrospective is not the first to tackle the complex life of Jim Thorpe, but it’s the most comprehensive . . . Captures Thorpe’s breathtaking highs and heartrending lows.� - Kirkus “Buford reports the facts and dispels many fictions about this American icon.� - Publishers Weekly From the Hardcover edition., "Diligently researched . . . Buford lays firm, clear historical groundwork for the reservation life and Indian world in which Thorpe grew up . . . Thorpe, in Buford's account a likable and engaging if feckless man, seems tragically destined to wander forever, the fastest itinerant in the world." -Jay Jennings, The New York Times Book Review "A professional biographer has proved what sound research and skillful writing can do: reveal a singular man, animate the times of his life, and illuminate the complexities of our world today, which Jim Thorpe helped to shape." -American Heritage "Compelling . . . Exhilarating . . . Buford is persuasive when she insists that, both for better and for worse, Jim Thorpe's true story is indeed stranger than most fictional tales of rising and falling heroes." -Michael R. Stevens, Christianity Today Books and Culture "This is the definitive biography of a legendary figure in American history, in and out of sports . . . An essential purchase." -Library Journal "Buford . . . knows about mythic heroes and draws a complex portrait of Jim Thorpe: from his superhuman athletic talents to his all-too-human flaws." -Steven V. Roberts, The Washington Post "This book is written with razor-sharp clarity, rock-solid scholarship, and a prose that is as elegantly executed as it is at times heartbreaking. Native American Son, meticulously researched, is a book that finally sets the record straight to provide justice at last to a legitimate American hero." -Larry Cox, Tucson Citizen "An absorbing American story." -Steve Kaufman, Louisville Courier-Journal "Impeccably researched . . . This retrospective is not the first to tackle the complex life of Jim Thorpe, but it's the most comprehensive . . . Captures Thorpe's breathtaking highs and heartrending lows." - Kirkus "From the opening paragraphs I realized that Native American Son was going to be gripping and illuminating. Kate Buford not only tells us a great deal we never knew about a legitimate American icon, she tells us a great deal about an America of which we may not have been fully aware, and does so in splendid prose." -Ira Berkow "As an athlete, Jim Thorpe was a force of nature. His achievements, across the board, remain unsurpassed. For many years we have needed a fair and comprehensive story of his life. Now we have it. Kate Buford's biography of Thorpe is a first-rate example of the genre. She has written--with clarity, insight, objectivity, and inspiration--a definitive work. Here is an evocation of triumph and tragedy, ans a uniquely American story." -N. Scott Momaday
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2010
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2010-012815
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796.092 B
Dewey Edition
23
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