Jackie Robinson: A Biography Tapa blanda - 1998
de Arnold Rampersad
Arnold Rampersad's brilliant biography of "Jackie" Robinson offers an intimate look at one of the most well-known American figures. Drawing heavily on never-before-seen personal documents, Rampersad gives readers privileged glimpses of this complex man and his compelling story, from his birth in Georgia to his stardom in baseball to his work in the civil rights movement.
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NEAR SIX O'CLOCK on the evening of January 31, 1919, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born somewhere near the town of Cairo in Grady County in southern Georgia, a few miles north of the Florida state line.
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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 watch his courageous response to abuse, first as a stoic endurer, then as a fighter who epitomized courage and defiance. We see hisgrowing friendship with white players like Pee Wee Reese and the black teammates who followed in his footsteps, and his embrace by Brooklyn's fans. We follow his blazing career: 1947, Rookie of the Year; 1949, Most Valuable Player; six pennants in ten seasons, and 1962, induction into the Hall of Fame.
But sports were merely one aspect of his life. 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. Rampersad's magnificent biography leaves us with an indelible image of a principled man who was passionate in his loyalties and opinions: a baseball player who could focus a crowd's attention as no one before or since; an activist at the crossroads of his people's struggle; a dedicated family man whose last years were plagued by illness and tragedy, and who died prematurely at fifty-two. He was a pathfinder, an American hero, and he now has the biography he deserves.
"From the Hardcover edition.
Detalles
- Título Jackie Robinson: A Biography
- Autor Arnold Rampersad
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición First Edition
- Páginas 560
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Ballantine Books, New York
- Fecha de publicación September 1, 1998
- ISBN 9780345426550 / 034542655X
- Peso 1.4 libras (0.64 kg)
- Dimensiones 7.9 x 5.4 x 1.3 pulgadas (20.07 x 13.72 x 3.30 cm)
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Temas
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Baseball players - United States - Biography, Robinson, Jackie
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 98096149
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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