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Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
Andrew Maraniss
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Description for Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
Paperback. This fast-paced, richly detailed biography, based on more than eighty interviews, digs deep beneath the surface to reveal a more complicated and profound story of sports pioneering than we've come to expect from the genre. Perry Wallace's unusually insightful and honest introspection reveals his inner thoughts throughout his journey. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; BGS; JFSL3; JPVH1; WSJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
New York Times Best Seller
2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition
2015 Lillian Smith Book Award
2015 AAUP Books Committee ""Outstanding"" Title
This fast-paced, richly detailed biography, based on more than eighty interviews, digs deep beneath the surface to reveal a more complicated and profound story of sports pioneering than we've come to expect from the genre. Perry Wallace's unusually insightful and honest introspection reveals his inner thoughts throughout his journey.
Wallace entered kindergarten the year that Brown v. Board of Education upended ""separate but equal."" As a 12-year-old, he sneaked downtown to watch the sit-ins at Nashville's ... Read more
New York Times Best Seller
2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition
2015 Lillian Smith Book Award
2015 AAUP Books Committee ""Outstanding"" Title
This fast-paced, richly detailed biography, based on more than eighty interviews, digs deep beneath the surface to reveal a more complicated and profound story of sports pioneering than we've come to expect from the genre. Perry Wallace's unusually insightful and honest introspection reveals his inner thoughts throughout his journey.
Wallace entered kindergarten the year that Brown v. Board of Education upended ""separate but equal."" As a 12-year-old, he sneaked downtown to watch the sit-ins at Nashville's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826520241
SKU
V9780826520241
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Andrew Maraniss
Formerly the associate director of media relations at the Vanderbilt athletic department and the first-ever media relations manager for the Tampa Bay Rays, Andrew Maraniss is now a partner at McNeely Pigott & Fox Public Relations. Andrew, the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss, attended Vanderbilt on the Fred Russell-Grantland Rice sportswriting scholarship. As a sophomore, he first interviewed ... Read more
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