Scott Ellsworth

The Secret Game

A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph

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Produktbeschreibung

Story of a 1944 illegal basketball game between the North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham and the Duke University medical school team.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little Brown and Company
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 139mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9780316244626
• ISBN-10: 0316244627
• Artikelnr.: 43414162

Autorenporträt

Scott Ellsworth is the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Game , which was the winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. He has written about American history for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Formerly a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, he is the author of  Death in a Promised Land, his groundbreaking account of the 1921 Tulsa race riot. He lives with his wife and twin sons in Ann Arbor, where he teaches at the University of Michigan.