Rampersad, Arnold
by Jackie Robinson: A Biography
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0679444955
- ISBN 13
- 9780679444954
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New York. 1997. Knopf. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0679444955. 512 pages. hardcover. keywords: Black Sports Biography. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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 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 as, late in 1945, Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers recognized Jack as the right player to break baseball's color barrier--and the game was forever changed. Jack's never-before-published letters open up his relationship with his family, especially his wife, Rachel, whom he married just as his perilous venture of integrating baseball began. Her memories are a major resource of the narrative as we learn about the severe harassment Robinson endured from teammates and opponents alike; about death threats and exclusion; about joy and remarkable success. We see his business ventures, his leading role in the community, his early support of Martin Luther King Jr., his commitment to the civil rights movement at a crucial stage in its evolution; his controversial associations with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Humphrey, Goldwater, Nelson Rockefeller, and Malcolm X. inventory #24423 ISBN: 0679444955.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24423
- Title
- Rampersad, Arnold
- Author
- Jackie Robinson: A Biography
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679444955
- ISBN 13
- 9780679444954
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1997
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