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Reviewed on July 1, 2022 | Arts & Humanities
Pulitzer Prize—winning Washington Post editor Maraniss (Rome 1960: The Summer Olympics That Stirred the World), who's known for his best-selling biographies of Vince Lombardi, Roberto Clemente, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, demonstrates with this latest biography that he moves easily between the worlds of politics and sports. His subject is the multisport phenom Jim Thorpe (1887–1953), whom ABC News has called the top American athlete of the 20th ce...Log In or Sign Up to Read More