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Format:

Book

Author:

Hillenbrand, Laura, author.

Title:

Seabiscuit : an American legend / Laura Hillenbrand.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

xiii, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary:

Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. Author Laura Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race.

Subjects:

Seabiscuit (Race horse), 1933-1947.

Race horses -- United States -- Biography.

Horse racing -- United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Executive producer, Karen DiMattia ; producer, Louis Milgrom ; abridgment by John McElroy.

Read by Campbell Scott.

Accelerated Reader Upper Grades 7.5 21.0 Quiz:68777.

Reading Counts High School 9.0 25.0 Quiz:33987.

Contents:

Day of the horse is past -- Lone plainsman -- Mean, restive, and ragged -- Cougar and the iceman -- Boot on one foot, a toe tag on the other -- Light and shadow -- Learn your horse -- Fifteen strides -- Gravity -- War Admiral -- No Pollard, no Seabiscuit -- All I need is luck -- Hardball -- Wise we boys -- Fortune's fool -- I know my horse -- Dingbustingest contest you ever clapped an eye on -- Deal -- Second civil war -- "All four of his legs are broken" -- Long, hard pull -- Four good legs between us -- One hundred grand.

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LCCN:

2001267852

ISBN:

0375502912

9780375502910

9780449005613

0449005615

9781435229761

1435229762

0345465083

9780345465085

1400060982

Other Number:

46369186

System Availability:

3

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

3

Control Number:

935667

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

798.4 Hillenbr