Real All Americans The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation

Name: Real All Americans The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation
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ISBN: 9780385519878

ISBN-10: 0385519877

ISBN-13: 9780385519878

Edition: 2007

Authors: Sally Jenkins

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Sally Jenkins, bestselling co-author of "It's Not About the Bike, "revives a forgotten piece of history in "The Real All Americans." In doing so, she has crafted a truly inspirational story about a Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong's book was about a bike. If you'd guess that Yale or Harvard ruled the college gridiron in 1911 and 1912, you'd be wrong. The most popular team belonged to an institution called the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Its story begins with Lt. Col. Richard Henry Pratt, a fierce abolitionist who believed that Native Americans deserved a place in American society. In 1879, Pratt made a treacherous journey to the Dakota…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/8/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

JOHN STAUFFER is chair and professor of the History of American Civilization at Harvard University and the award-winning author ofThe Black Hearts of Menand other books on the Civil War era, includingGIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.