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Seabiscuit: an American Legend
Laura Hillenbrand. Ballantine: 2002 (paperback). ISBN: 0449005615. 339 pages.
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Gooooooo Seabiscuit! You don't have to be interested in horse racing, or even to care too much about horses, to be enthralled by this captivating story of a short, stocky, spraddle-legged hero and the men who believed in him. In his time, Seabiscuit was one of the great cultural icons of American society.
In the 1930s, this funny-looking but furiously fast racehorse drew crowds comparable to those attending the Superbowls of today. You could buy a Seabiscuit hat on Fifth Avenue, or play one of nine parlor games bearing his image. Almost seventy years later, Hillenbrand's wonderful book brings Seabiscuit mania to a new generation of fans, capturing all of the drama, suspense, tension, and majesty of Seabiscuit's unparalleled career-the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat. Don't be embarrassed if you find yourself getting a bit weepy in the final triumphant pages; we had trouble in this department as well.
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