by Arnold Rampersad · Alfred A. Knopf · tapa dura · ISBN 9780679444954
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«Jackie Robinson» is the biography written by Arnold Rampersad, published by Alfred A. Knopf in hardcover (512 pages, in English).
Arnold Rampersad reconstructs the life of Jackie Robinson: his childhood in the South, his youth in California, the army, the Negro leagues and his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers as the first African American to play in the Major Leagues. It also addresses the harassment he suffered, his marriage to Rachel and his involvement in civil rights.
This is the first edition, published in September 1997. The volume contains bibliographical references and an index. The work was nominated for the Casey Award in 1997.
For readers of biographies, baseball history and the civil rights movement in the United States.
