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Jackie Robinson: A Biography

Rampersad, Arnold

 
9780679460077: Jackie Robinson: A Biography
ISBN 10: 0679460071 ISBN 13: 9780679460077
Verlag: Random House, 1997

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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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

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AudioBook contains the historic recording of Jackie Robinson's Baseball Hall of Fame induction speech.


The extraordinary life of Jackie Robinson is illuminated as never before in this full-scale biography by Arnold Rampersad, who was chosen by Jack's widow, Rachel, to tell her husband's story, and was given unprecedented access to his private papers. We are brought closer than we have ever been to the great ballplayer, a man of courage and quality who became a pivotal figure in the areas of race and civil rights.

Born in the rural South, the son of a sharecropper, Robinson was reared in southern California. We see him blossom there as a student-athlete as he struggled against poverty and racism to uphold the beliefs instilled in him by his mother--faith in family, education, America, and God.

We follow Robinson through World War II, when, in the first wave of racial integration in the armed forces, he was

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Verlag
Random House
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679460071
ISBN 13 
9780679460077
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