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Lars Anderson

Carlisle vs. Army

Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the Forgotten Story of Football's Greatest Battle

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A stunning work of narrative nonfiction, Carlisle vs. Army recounts the fateful 1912 gridiron clash that pitted one of America's finest athletes, Jim Thorpe, against the man who would become one of the nation's greatest heroes, Dwight D. Eisenhower. But beyond telling the tale of this momentous event, Lars Anderson also reveals the broader social and historical context of the match, lending it his unique perspectives on sports and culture at the dawn of the twentieth century.This story begins with the infamous massacre of the Sioux at Wounded Knee, in 1890, then moves to rural Pennsylvania and the Carlisle Indian School, an institution design… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-58836-698-6
  • EAN: 9781588366986
  • Produktnummer: 15714953
  • Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
  • Seitenangabe: 368 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 928 KB
  • Abbildungen: 14 B/W PHOTOS THROUGHOUT

Über den Autor


Lars Anderson is a Sports Illustrated staff writer and a graduate of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of The All Americans. He lives with his wife in Birmingham, Alabama.

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