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Rampersad, Arnold

 
9780679444954: Jackie Robinson: A Biography
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ISBN 10: 0679444955 ISBN 13: 9780679444954
Editorial: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997

Sinopsis

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. 200,000 first printing. Tour.

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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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inary 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 commissioned as an officer, then court-martialed after refusing to move to the back of a bus. After he plays in the Negro National League, we watch the opening of an all-American drama

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Editorial
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Año de publicación
1997
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0679444955
ISBN 13 
9780679444954
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
512
Contacto del fabricante
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