The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968 [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Colt, George Howe

Published by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, New York, 2018

About this Item

Fine unread condition black boards with red spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by George Howe Colt; Author Dedication; Prologue; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes on Sources; Acknowledgments; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. "From the author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House comes a story about an unforgettable group of young athletes who battled in the legendary Harvard-Yale foootball game of 1968 amidst the sweeping currents of one of the most transformative years in American history. On November 23, 1968, there was a football game: the season-ending clash between Harvard and Yale. Both teams entered undefeated and, technically, came out undefeated. The final score was 29-29. To some of the players on the field, it was a triumph; to others, a tragedy. And, to many, the reasons had as much to do with one side's miraculous comeback in the game's final forty-two seconds as it did with the months that preceded it, months that witnessed the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, inner-city riots, campus takeovers, and looming over everything, the war in Vietnam. George Howe Colt's The Game is the story of that iconic American year, as seen through the young men who lived it and were changed by it. One player had recently returned from eight months under fire in Vietnam. Two were members of the radical antiwar group SDS. There was one NFL prospect who quit to devote his time to black activism, another who went on to be a Pro Bowler. They came from every class and background, but played side by side and, together, forged a moment of starling grace in the midst of the storm. Vivid, lively, and constantly surprising, this magnificent and intimate work of history is the story of ordinary people in an extraordinary time and of a country facing issues that we continue to wrestle with to this day." - from the inner front jacket flap. "I began to read this book believing that the 1968 Harvard-Yale game could not possibly represent anything more than a tiny sliver of American life - and an elite one at that. Three-hundred-forty-five pages later, George Howe Colt's spirited prose and encompassing vision convinced me otherwise. The game itself is plenty of fun, of course, but it's the narrative's nation-spanning context that kept me riveted." - S.C. Gwynne, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell. Seller Inventory # 008610

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968...

Publisher: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, New York

Publication Date: 2018

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Miceli, Jaya (jacket design)

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition