SEABISCUIT - An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand (hard cover 377+ pages)

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This is the SEABISCUIT - An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand, Complete and in Excellent Condition. This hard cover book is the "Special Collectors Edition" with 377+ pages and was a New York Times Best Seller. This is the spellbinding true story of how three men and a great racehorse captivated the nation. Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit: An American Legend became an immediate number one best seller and cultural phenomenon upon its publication in 2001. Named one of the best books of the year  by more than twenty publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, People, USA Today and The Economist. Seabiscuit was also honored as the BookSense Nonfiction Book of the Year and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and was the finalist for several other major prizes including the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. For this lavishly illustrated special edition author Laura Hillenbrand has written a new Introduction and selected nearly 150 rare photographs from historic archives and private collections. Seabiscuit tells the story of three remarkable men: Charles Howard, a bicycle repairman who made a fortune by introducing the automobile to the American West; Red Pollard, a failed prizefighter and failing jockey who was abandoned as a boy at a makeshift race track; Tom Smith, an enigmatic mustang breaker who came from the vanishing frontier bearing generations of lost wisdom about the secrets of horses. In the sultry summer of 1936 the lives of these men converged around a bad-legged, floundering racehorse named Seabiscuit. Forming an improbable partnership, they transformed the horse into one of the most extraordinary competitors in sports history. In four tumultuous years the rags to riches horse overcame a phenomenal run of misfortune, drawing an immense following prompting an avalanche of merchandising and establishing himself as the single biggest newsmaker of 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler or any other public figure. Seabiscuit is an inspiring tale of unlikely heroes, a classic story of three embattled individuals and a remarkable racehorse overcoming the odds in the Great Depressi9on. Media Mail Postage shipping cost will be determined by the Zip Code of the Buyer in the U.S.A. International postage cost will be determined by the Country of the Buyer. If you buy more than one item please pay for all the items with one combined payment.