Clemente: La Pasión Y El Carisma del Último Héroe del Béisbol (the Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero)
David Maraniss
(Author)
Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of When Pride Still Mattered comes a book destined to become a modern classic--a full-scale biography of great baseball player and humanitarian Roberto Clemente, who lived, played, and died with enduring passion and grace. of photos.Product Details
Price
$27.99
Publisher
Atria Books
Publish Date
June 27, 2006
Pages
464
Dimensions
6.2 X 9.16 X 1.17 inches | 1.14 pounds
Language
Spanish
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780743294720
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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 1960; Once in a Great City (winner of the RFK Book Prize); and They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History).
Reviews
"An astonishingly good book.... A triumph, a classic American biography."
-- Robert W. Creamer, "The Washington Post Book World"
"Forges a near-perfect synthesis of fine writing and fascinating material. May be the best sports biography ever published."
-- Ron Fimrite, "Sports Illustrated"
