The author of this in-depth biography of the legendary Native American athlete Jim Thorpe narrates the text earnestly but flatly. It’s too bad because, while this is a long listen, Maraniss reveals the mythology and pure fiction relating to the oft-called “greatest athlete in the world.” Thorpe, who described himself as five-eighths Indian, won the decathlon and pentathlon in the 1912 Olympics in Sweden. The finest football player of his time, he played both professional football and baseball. His roller-coaster life was marked by scandal when his medals were taken away because he had been paid to play semipro baseball. The injustice haunted him. He was surely flawed—thrice married, an absent father, prone to drink—but always a staunch partisan of Native American issues. A.D.M © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
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BN ID: | 2940176062656 |
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Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date: | 08/09/2022 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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