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Clemente

The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero

Clemente( )
Author: Maraniss, David
Narrated by: Davis, Jonathan
ISBN:978-1-4498-6879-6
Publication Date:May 2006
Publisher:Recorded Books, Inc.
Book Format:Downloadable audio file
List Price:USD $109.00
Book Description:

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss penned this stirring biography of Puerto Rican baseball star Roberto Clemente. Before his untimely demise in a plane crash on New Year's Eve, 1972, while rendering aid to earthquake-ravaged Nicaragua, Clemente had achieved allstar status playing for the Pittsburg Pirates. Pushing past the myths, Maraniss memorializes Clemente as a quiet, pensive hero of the people. "Maraniss deftly balances baseball and loftier concerns like racism ..."...
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Maraniss, David (Author)
David Maraniss is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who chronicled the Clinton era during his time at the Washington Post.

After leaving the Washington Post, Maraniss wrote "First in His Class," a book about Clinton that won the American Society of Newspaper Editors Jesse Laventhal Prize. He has also published "The Clinton Enigma," a book interpreting the Clinton scandal.

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