Jackie Robinson: A Biography

Rampersad, Arnold

ISBN 10: 0679460071 ISBN 13: 9780679460077

Publisher: Random House, 1997

Synopsis

An illuminating portrait of one of baseball's most celebrated players chronicles the life of Jackie Robinson from his rural Southern childhood to his early career in the Negro Leagues to his role as the man who broke professional baseball's color barrier. Simultaneous.

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Review:

"TOUCHES ALL THE BASES ... Rampersad methodically retraces the amazing story of Robinson's transition from a local Southern California hero ... into the man who broke the unstated but implacable color line in major league baseball and changed American race relations forever ....He educated, at great sacrifice, his era. His lesson lives in Rampersad's book".

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About the Author:

Arnold Rampersad is Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University, where he is a member of the Department of English and the Program in African-American Studies. His books include the two-volume Life of Langston Hughes and, with the late Arthur Ashe, Days of Grace: A Memoir. In 1991, he was appointed a MacArthur Foundation fellow. He lives with his family in Princeton, New Jersey.

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LeVar Burton is well known for his television roles in Roots and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and his film work includes The Hunter, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and Star Trek: First Contact.  He is the host and co-executive producer of the Emmy-winning PBS series Readi

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679460071
• ISBN 13: 9780679460077
• Binding: Audio Cassette