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Seabiscuit Audio Book
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Seabiscuit:
An American Legend
Author:
Laura Hillenbrand
Reader: Campbell Scott
This ungainly racehorse had knobby knees, galloped like he was swatting flies, and the experts said he had no chance. But after three men saw the raw talent beyond the scraggly surface, Seabiscuit was the biggest newsmaker in 1938, bigger than FDR or Hitler. The Oscar-nominated movie stars Toby Maguire and Jeff Bridges. A USA Today Book Club selection and winner of the BookSense Award for 2002. "A treat for the ear, an education for the mind, and a meal for the soul."—AudioFile
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Available Audio Book Editions:
| E5R639 |
ABRIDGED |
Audio CDs ( 5 ) |
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Publish Date: 07/01/2003
ISBN: 9780739306390
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| EP5556 |
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Playaway (1) |
$39.99 |
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Synopsis:
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.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Book Awards:
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Nominated for the
2001 National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction |
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