false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1204132989m/1440334.jpg 1440334 2 <B>A classic american story of a homeless drifter who tries to start a new life by applying to Princeton University, based on the acclaimed <I>New Yorker</I> article.</B><BR><BR>Based on one of the most talked-about <I>New Yorker</I> articles from the past decade&#151;soon to be a major motion picture.<BR><BR>On the morning of March 30, 1988, a police detective named Matt Jacobson arrived at a storage facility in St. George, Utah, with a warrant to search for stolen bicycles. Among the stolen goods and dusty athletic trophies in Locker 100, Jacobson also found some recent correspondence showing that the thief, James Hogue, had been dreaming of a new and better life as a person named Alexi Santana&#151;a self-educated Nevada cowboy who could run a mile in just over four minutes and had applied for admission to some of America's finest universities, including Stanford, Princeton, and Brown.<BR><BR>Thus began a classic American narrative of self-invention that falls somewhere between <I>The Great Gatsby</I> and <I>The Talented Mr. Ripley</I>. Hogue's story&#151;how he fooled the Princeton University admissions department, got straight A's, made the Princeton track team, dated a millionaire's daughter, and was accepted into the elite Ivy Club before his deception was finally exposed&#151;turns out to be both an intensely affecting profile of a dreamer and the limits of his dream, and a striking indictment of the Ivy League "meritocracy" to which Hogue wanted so badly to belong.<BR><BR>Taking off from his widely read <I>New Yorker</I> article, David Samuels adds substantial new reporting, telling the sad story of Hogue's itinerant life after he was expelled from Princeton and providing fascinating new insights into the Ivy League's most famous impostor. 1430941 8 4 2008 The Runner: A True Account of the Amazing Lies and Fantastical Adventures of the Ivy League Impostor James Hogue total:35|5:1|4:13|3:13|2:7|1:1| 35 111 86 13 3 0 false false Tue Oct 07 15:39:48 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 16:03:24 -0700 2008 ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 28 10:34:05 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 10:34:05 -0700 2008
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