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Wink

Autor Ed Hotaling
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mai 2006
"May be the most fascinating untold sports story in American history."--Charles Osgood, anchor, CBS News Sunday Morning
"Winkfield's story is so incredible you'll find yourself wondering why you've never heard it before."--MSNBC
"Winkfield's life (is) an unbelievable ride."--ESPN
"For once, a book's breathless subtitle is accurate."--The Washington Post
"This is the stuff of great nonfiction."--Douglas Brinkley, author of Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War
In 1904, at age twenty-three, two-time Kentucky Derby-winner Jimmy Winkfield was forced from American horseracing by a virulent combination of racism and hard times. Wink left his beloved Kentucky, bought a steamer ticket for Europe, and made the world his racetrack.
There he embarked on a decades-long odyssey, rising to superstardom and winning and losing two fortunes. Driven at gunpoint from Russia by the Bolshevik Army and from France by Nazi occupiers, the 105-pound jockey proved himself the most resilient, courageous athlete of the twentieth century. In 2005, Winkfield was inducted into America's horse racing Hall of Fame.
Winkfield achieved a human greatness that transcends the limits of sport. In Wink, Ed Hotaling tells this wonderful story--this American story--in all its rich and vibrant power.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780071467568
ISBN-10: 0071467564
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 167 x 218 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: McGraw Hill LLC
Locul publicării:United States

Cuprins

Preface

Prologue

One: Bluegrass Boy

Two: "A Race War Is On"

Three: Winnie's Diamond

Four: "Winkfield's Dead!"

Five: Win the Futurity, and . . .

Six: "Winkfield, I Don't Like to Be Double-crossed!"

Seven: Invading Russia

Eight: Edna or a Life

Nine: James and Alexandra

Ten: Wink's World War I

Eleven: The Odyssey

Twelve: An American in Paris

Thirteen: Kings, Queens, and Wink

Fourteen: Marriage and Divorce

Fifteen: Josephine and Friends

Sixteen: Winkfield Shot; Winkfield Stabbed

Seventeen: Chickens, Rabbits, and Nazis

Eighteen: The Nazis versus Wink

Nineteen: The Backstretch

Twenty: You Can't Come In

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index