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The Great Match Race: When North Met South in America's First Sports Spectacle Paperback - 2007
by John Eisenberg
In a fast-paced narrative--colorful, rich, and full of record-setting performances and towering personalities--Eisenberg chronicles the tremendous story of the year in which two horses would come to embody a nation galloping inevitably toward civil war.
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The Great Match Race is a captivating account of America's first sports spectacle, a horse race that pitted North against South in three grueling heats. On a bright afternoon in May 1823, an unprecedented sixty thousand people showed up to watch two horses run the equivalent of nine Kentucky Derbys in a few hours' time. Eclipse was the majestic champion representing the North, and Henry, an equine arriviste, was the pride of the South. Their match race would come to represent a watershed moment in American history, crystallizing the differences that so fundamentally divided the country. The renowned sportswriter John Eisenberg captures all the pulse-pounding drama and behind-the-scenes tensions in a page-turning mix of history, horse racing, and pure entertainment.
First line
SIR CHARLES came to a halt a half-mile from the finish.
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- Title The Great Match Race: When North Met South in America's First Sports Spectacle
- Author John Eisenberg
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 2007-04-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780618872114 / 0618872116
- Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.66 x 5.8 x 0.71 in (22.00 x 14.73 x 1.80 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 798.400
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