Path Lit By Lightning
- Author: David Maraniss
- Narrator: David Maraniss
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 23:26:12
Synopsis
A riveting new biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered.
Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, 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 colossal skills, Thorpe’s life was a struggle against the odds. As a member of the Sac and Fox Nation, he encountered duplicitous authorities who turned away from him when their reputations were at risk. At Carlisle, he dealt with the racist assimilationist philosophy “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.” His gold medals were unfairly rescinded because he had played minor league baseball. 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 did not succumb. The man survived, complications and all, and so did the myth.
Path Lit by Lightning is a great American story from a master biographer.
Chapters
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001 PathLitByLightning Open
Duration: 35s -
002 PathLitByLightning Dedication
Duration: 21s -
003 PathLitByLightning Preface
Duration: 09min -
004 PathLitByLightning Chapter1 TheStuffHisPeopleAreMadeOf
Duration: 39min -
005 PathLitByLightning Chapter2 PathLitByLightning
Duration: 48min -
006 PathLitByLightning Chapter3 ThisIsTheIndiansHome
Duration: 54min -
007 PathLitByLightning Chapter4 HighJump
Duration: 49min -
008 PathLitByLightning Chapter5 AthleticDutiesAboveEverything
Duration: 23min -
009 PathLitByLightning Chapter6 TheNewestStar
Duration: 58min -
010 PathLitByLightning Chapter7 Railroaded
Duration: 33min -
011 PathLitByLightning Chapter8 AlmostThere
Duration: 58min -
012 PathLitByLightning Chapter9A Stockholm
Duration: 49min -
013 PathLitByLightning Chapter9B Stockholm
Duration: 29min -
014 PathLitByLightning Chapter10 NearCustersTomb
Duration: 42min -
015 PathLitByLightning Chapter11 LoThePoorIndian
Duration: 43min -
016 PathLitByLightning Chapter12 AmongTheGiants
Duration: 29min -
017 PathLitByLightning Chapter13 AroundTheWorld
Duration: 56min -
018 PathLitByLightning Chapter14 TheReckoning
Duration: 21min -
019 PathLitByLightning Chapter15 TheMythOfAVanishingRace
Duration: 25min -
020 PathLitByLightning Chapter16 NeverLookUp
Duration: 27min