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Tigerland : 1968-1969: a City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season

Tigerland : 1968-1969: a City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing Hardcover - 2018

by Wil Haygood

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2018. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Tigerland : 1968-1969: a City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing
  • Author Wil Haygood
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Date 2018
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G1524731862I4N10
  • ISBN 9781524731861 / 1524731862
  • Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.3 in (23.88 x 16.26 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Black History
  • Library of Congress subjects Columbus (Ohio), SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / General
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018002138
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.323

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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2018, Page 16
  • Choice, 04/01/2019, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/2018, Page 70
  • Library Journal, 10/01/2018, Page 64
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 05/15/2018, Page 42
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/30/2018, Page 0

About the author

Wil Haygood is currently visiting distinguished professor in the department of media, journalism, and film at Miami University, Ohio. For nearly three decades he was a journalist, serving as a national and foreign correspondent at The Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and then at The Washington Post. He is the author of The Butler: A Witness to History; Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America; Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson; In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr.; Two on the River; King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell Jr.; and The Haygoods of Columbus: A Family Memoir. The Butler was later adapted into the critically acclaimed film directed by Lee Daniels, starring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey. Haygood has received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and the 2017 Patrick Henry Fellowship Literary Award for his research for Tigerland. He lives in Washington, D.C.