| Description |
xxiv, 279 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Putnam, 1972. |
| Contents |
Foreword / by Cornel West -- Introduction / by Hank Aaron -- Preface : Today / by Jackie Robinson -- [pt. 1]. The noble experiment -- [ch.] 1. A dream deferred -- [ch.] 2. The nobel experiment -- [ch.] 3. Breaking the color barrier -- [ch.] 4. The major leagues -- [ch.] 5. "Just another guy" -- [ch.] 6. My own man -- [ch.] 7. The price of popularity -- [ch.] 8. The growing family -- [ch.] 9. The ninth inning -- [pt. 2]. After the ball game -- [ch.] 10. New horizons -- [ch.] 11. Campaigning for Nixon -- [ch.] 12. The Hall of Fame Award -- [ch.] 13. Conflict at the Apollo -- [ch.] 14. Crises at home -- [ch.] 15. On being black among the Republicans -- [ch.] 16. Differences with Malcolm X -- [ch.] 17. The Freedom Bank -- [ch.] 18. Hope and disillusionment in white politics -- [ch.] 19. The influence of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- [ch.] 20. Jackie's prison -- [ch.] 21. Politics today -- [ch.] 22." ... and he was free" -- [ch.] 23. Aftermath -- [ch.] 24. Epilogue. |
| Subject |
Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
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Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Duckett, Alfred.
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| ISBN |
0060555971 (pbk.) |
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