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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- “good condition”
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Country of Manufacture
- United States
- Personalized
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Inscribed
- No
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9780312338138
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
0312338139
ISBN-13
9780312338138
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50795868
Product Key Features
Book Title
Into My Own : the Remarkable People and events That Shaped Alife
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Personal Memoirs
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-040394
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
070.4/49796092 B
Synopsis
Called the dean of American sportswriters, the author of "The Boys of Summer" offers a lyrical, courageous, and inspirational memoir of the eight people who shaped his life. 8-page color photo insert., Roger Kahn is one of America's foremost sportswriters. After successful seasons as a newspaperman and magazine writer, he burst onto the national scene in 1972 with his memorable bestseller,The Boys of Summer,a work that went beyond sports and captured the minds and hearts of millions across the country. Now in his eighth decade, Kahn has again written a book for the hearts and minds of his readers. Chronicling his own life,Into My Ownis Kahn's reflection on the eight people who shaped him as a man, a father, and a writer. In this poignant self-portrait, Kahn begins with his childhood in Brooklyn, reared on the verses of Homer, Shakespeare, Housman, and Millay---a curriculum set by his mother, and one that would influence his career with words. He combined his intellectual upbringing with his inherent passion for baseball, and began his sportswriting career under the legendary Stanley Woodward at the New YorkHerald Tribune. This lent Kahn the opportunity to interview and develop friendships with Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson-men he knew and admired for reasons far beyond their baseball abilities. Kahn's writing is by no means limited to his sports coverage, and on the political front he devotes chapters to Eugene McCarthy and Barry Goldwater, whom he interviewed for theSaturday Evening Post---two diverse men in a turbulent era who championed their distinct versions of idealism. ThePosthad earlier sent Kahn to interview poet Robert Frost at his home in Vermont, a rare opportunity for any journalist, and one that resulted in the development of a marked friendship between two men of words. Perhaps most touching is his account, straightforward but abrim with love, of the life and death---at twenty-three---of his scholar-athlete son, Roger Laurence Kahn. Into My Ownis the touching memoir of an unassuming man, whose great love of baseball and literature led him into extraordinary experiences, opportunities, and friendships. Even amidst great family tragedy and personal difficulty, Kahn has prevailed---amongst poets, writers, politicians, and most of all, ballplayers. Praise for Roger Kahn: "As a kid, I loved sports first and writing second, and loved everything Roger Kahn wrote. As an adult, I love writing first and sports second, and love Roger Kahn even more." ---Pulitzer Prize winner, David Maraniss "He can epitomize a player with a single swing of the pen." ---Timemagazine "Roger Kahn is the best baseball writer in the business." ---Stephen Jay Gould,New YorkReview of Books "A work of high moral purpose and great poetic accomplishment. The finest American book on sports." ---James Michener onThe Boys of Summer "Kahn has the almost unfair gift of easy, graceful writing." ---BostonHerald
LC Classification Number
GV742.42.K35A3 2006
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