Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe
Language: English
Published by Knopf, 2010
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- Title
- Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe
- Author
- Buford, Kate
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0375413243
- ISBN 13
- 9780375413247
With clarity and a fine eye for detail, Kate Buford traces the pivotal moments of Thorpes incomparable career: growing up in the tumultuous Indian Territory of Oklahoma; leading the Carlisle Indian Industrial School football team, coached by the renowned Pop Warner, to victories against the countrys finest college teams; winning gold medals in the 1912 Olympics pentathlon and decathlon; defining the burgeoning sport of professional football and helping to create what would become the National Football League; and playing long, often successfuland previously unexaminedyears in professional baseball.
But, at the same time, Buford vividly depicts the difficulties Thorpe faced as a Native Americanand a Native American celebrity at thatearly in the twentieth century. We also see the infamous loss of his Olympic medals, stripped from him because he had previously played professional baseball, an event that would haunt Thorpe for the rest of his life. We see his struggles with alcoholism and personal misfortune, losing his first child and moving from one failed marriage to the next, coming to distrust many of the hands extended to him. Finally, we learn the details of his vigorous advocacy for Native American rights while he chased a Hollywood career, and the truth behind the supposed reinstatement of his Olympic record in 1982.
Here is the storylong overdue and brilliantly toldof a complex, iconoclastic, profoundly talented man whose life encompassed both tragic limitations and truly extraordinary achievements.
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Kate Buford has written for The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Film Comment, and Bluegrass Unlimited, among other publications. She has been a commentator on NPR's Morning Edition and American Public Media's Marketplace, and on Virginia's NPR affiliate, WMRA. Her biography of Burt Lancaster was named one of the best books of 2000 by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. She lives in Lexington, Virginia, and Westchester County, New York.
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