Description: Further DetailsTitle: The World's Fastest ManCondition: NewEAN: 9781501192609ISBN: 9781501192609Publisher: ScribnerFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/22/2021Item Height: 213mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 306gAuthor: Michael KranishLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports HeroISBN-10: 1501192604Description: In this “sharp-eyed account of a nearly forgotten African-American sports legend” (Publishers Weekly)—the remarkable Major Taylor who became the world’s fastest bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era—“Kranish has done historians and fans a service by reminding us that such immortals as Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Serena Williams and Tiger Woods all followed in Major Taylor’s wake” (The Washington Post).In the 1890s, the nation’s promise of equality had failed spectacularly. While slavery had ended with the Civil War, the Jim Crow laws still separated blacks from whites, and the excesses of the Gilded Age created an elite upper class. When Major Taylor, a young black man, announced he wanted to compete in the nation’s most popular and mostly white man’s sport, cycling, Birdie Munger, a white cyclist who once was the world’s fastest man, declared that he could help turn the young black athlete into a champion. Twelve years before boxer Jack Johnson and fifty years before baseball player Jackie Robinson, Taylor faced racism at nearly every turn—especially by whites who feared he would disprove their stereotypes of blacks. In The World’s Fastest Man, years in the writing, investigative journalist Michael Kranish reveals new information about Major Taylor based on a rare interview with his daughter and other never-before-uncovered details from Taylor’s life. Kranish shows how Taylor indeed became a world champion, traveled the world, was the toast of Paris, and was one of the most chronicled black men of his day. From a moment in time just before the arrival of the automobile when bicycles were king, the populace was booming with immigrants, and enormous societal changes were about to take place, “both inspiring and heartbreaking, this is an essential contribution to sports history” (Booklist, starred review). The World’s Fastest Man “restores the memory of one of the first black athletes to overcome the drag of racism and achieve national renown” (The New York Times Book Review).Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryTopic: Sports & HobbiesRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The World's Fastest Man
Title: The World's Fastest Man
EAN: 9781501192609
ISBN: 9781501192609
Release Date: 07/22/2021
Release Year: 2021
Subtitle: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First B
ISBN-10: 1501192604
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: World's Fastest Man : The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Scribner
Item Height: 1 in
Topic: Cycling, United States / 20th Century, African American
Publication Year: 2021
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Sports & Recreation, History
Item Weight: 13.1 Oz
Item Length: 8.4 in
Author: Michael Kranish
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
