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Seabiscuit

An American Legend

By Laura Hillenbrand

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| Hardcover | 9780375502910

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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 rContinue

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 western United States and became an overnight millionaire. When he needed a trainer for his new racehorses, he hired Tom Smith, a mysterious mustang breaker from the Colorado plains. Smith urged Howard to buy Seabiscuit for a bargain-basement price, then hired as his jockey Red Pollard, a failed boxer who was blind in one eye, half-crippled, and prone to quoting passages from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Over four years, these unlikely partners survived a phenomenal run of bad fortune, conspiracy, and severe injury to transform Seabiscuit from a neurotic, pathologically indolent also-ran into an American sports icon.

Author Laura Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race.

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    Seabiscuit: The True Story of Three Men and a Horse Laura Hillenbrand Fourth Estate, £16.99, pp410 Great horse, great name, great story, very good book. It started as a magazine article and, after years of research, became a 339-page bestseller which ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Seabiscuit: An American Legend By Laura Hillenbrand

    In 1938, a single, legendary figure stole the national spotlight from FDR, Hitler and Mussolini. The figure in question was not human. He was a thoroughbred racehorse named Seabiscuit. The short, bandy-legged horse who against all odds showed the spe ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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  • I don't really care for sports stories, but I found myself standing up and cheering with this book. An amazing tale of two broken men and a broken horse whose triumph created an American legend.

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