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All American: The Rise and Fall of Jim Thorpe
"All American is riveting and grand-that rare pairing of exquisite writing and unassailable research. Crawford delivers you to an age when iconic titans like Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner marched across the planet, and he is the perfect guide to their enormous triumphs and tragedies. This is epic American history at its page-turning finest."
-Bill Minutaglio, author ...more
-Bill Minutaglio, author ...more
Hardcover, 284 pages
Published
October 18th 2004
by John Wiley & Sons
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I don't know when it started but since as long as can remember I've loved readying about Jim Thorpe. This was one of my favorite books about him. I always felt he was treated poorly when his gold medals were stripped away from him because he "forfeited his amatuer status" by playing in a handful of minor league baseball games.
Very typical of how Native Americans have been treated through the history of our country Thorpe was made the scape goat and took the fall for his c...more
Very typical of how Native Americans have been treated through the history of our country Thorpe was made the scape goat and took the fall for his c...more
it was about a relative of mine
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