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The Great Match Race
When North Met South in America's First Sports Spectacle
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- By John Eisenberg
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- Paperback
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- Published: 5th Apr 2007
- ISBN: 0618872116
- Pages: 272
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A page-turning mix of history, horse racing, and pure entertainment, The Great Match Race is a captivating account of America's first sports spectacle, a horse race that pitted North against South in three grueling heats.
On a bright afternoon in May 1823, an unprecedented sixty thousand people showed up to watch two horses run the equivalent of nine Kentucky Derbys in the space of a few hours. Eclipse was a majestic champion representing the North's evolving industrial machine, and Henry was an equine arriviste embodying southern perceptions of superiority. Their thrilling match race would come to represent a watershed moment in American history, crystallizing the differences that so fundamentally divided North and South.
Renowned sports writer John Eisenberg captures all the pulsepounding drama and behind-the-scenes tension in an engrossing tale that, in the eyes of many reviewers, carries on the tradition of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit.
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