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biographyKahn, Roger.
Summary: "In Rickey & Robinson, legendary sportswriter Roger Kahn at last reveals the true, unsanitized account of the integration of baseball, a story that for decades has relied on inaccurate secondhand reports. This story contains exclusive reporting and personal reminiscences that no other writer can produce, including revelatory material he'd buried in his notebooks in the '40s and '50s, back when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 KAHWoodfox, Albert
Summary: Nearly forty years in solitary confinement in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell for 23 hours a day for a crime he did not commit, Albert Woodfox survived and emerged with his humanity and sense of hope for the future intact.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019