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"Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. Three men changed Seabiscuit?s fortunes: Charles Howard was a onetime bicycle repairman who introduced the automobile to the...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 24 cm
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"In Bloodlines, journalist Melissa del Bosque follows Lawson and Perez's harrowing attempt to dismantle a cartel leader?s American racing dynasty built on extortion and blood money. Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he?s deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is asked to check out an anonymous tip: a horse was sold...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 401 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"The dramatic true story of the champion Thoroughbred racehorse who gained international fame in the tumultuous, Civil War-era South, despite going nearly blind, and became the most successful sire in American racing history. The early days of American horse-racing were grueling. Four-mile heats-races four miles long, run two or three times in succession!-were the norm, rewarding horses who possessed the ideal combination of stamina and speed, attributes...
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