Path lit by lightning : the life of Jim Thorpe
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Published
[New York] : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2022].
Edition
Unabridged.
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19 CDs (23 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Atascadero Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
796.092
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Los Osos Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
796.092
1 available

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Published
[New York] : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2022].
Format
Book on CD
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
UPC
9781797140803

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Read by the author.
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Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, in the first class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and played major league baseball for the New York Giants. But despite his colossal skills, Thorpe's life was a struggle against the odds. As a member of the Sac and Fox Nation, he encountered duplicitous authorities who turned away from him when their reputations were at risk. At Carlisle, he dealt with the racist assimilationist philosophy Kill the Indian, Save the Man. His gold medals were unfairly rescinded because he had played minor league baseball. His later life was troubled by alcohol, broken marriages, and financial distress. But for all his travails, Thorpe did not succumb. The man survived, complications and all, and so did the myth.

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