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Meet Author David Maraniss

2023-06-29 19:00:00 2023-06-29 20:00:00 America/New_York Meet Author David Maraniss Join us when author David Maraniss visits to discuss his book, <i>Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe</i>. Beachwood Branch - Beachwood Meeting Room (Auditorium) (84)

Thursday, June 29
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-06-29 19:00:00 2023-06-29 20:00:00 America/New_York Meet Author David Maraniss Join us when author David Maraniss visits to discuss his book, <i>Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe</i>. Beachwood Branch - Beachwood Meeting Room (Auditorium) (84)

Beachwood Branch

Beachwood Meeting Room (Auditorium) (84)

Join us when author David Maraniss visits to discuss his book, Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe.

About the author:

David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, and a trilogy about the 1960s—Rome 1960Once in a Great City (winner of the RFK Book Prize); and They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lucas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History). 

In Path Lit by Lightning, Maraniss details Jim Thorpe's rise to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. Most famously, he won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, he was an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, the star of the first class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and played major league baseball for John McGraw’s New York Giants. Even in a golden age of sports celebrities, he was one of a kind.

But despite his awesome talent, Thorpe’s life was a struggle against the odds. At Carlisle, he faced the racist assimilationist philosophy “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.” His gold medals were unfairly rescinded because he had played minor league baseball, and his supposed allies turned away from him when their own reputations were at risk. His later life was troubled by alcohol, broken marriages, and financial distress. He roamed from state to state and took bit parts in Hollywood, but even the film of his own life failed to improve his fortunes. But for all his travails, Thorpe survived, determined to shape his own destiny, his perseverance becoming another mark of his mythic stature.

Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.

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