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003			OCoLC
005			20190509144258.0
008			190211t20192019nyuaf b 001 0beng
010			_a 2019006827
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020			_a9781501192593 _q(hardback)
020			_a1501192590 _q(hardback)
020			_a9781501192609 _q(paperback)
020			_a1501192604 _q(paperback)
020			_z9781501192616 (ebook)
035			_a(OCoLC)1088602185
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043			_an-us---
092			_aTaylor, M. _bK89
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aKranish, Michael, _eauthor. _9199731
245	1	4	_aThe world's fastest man : _bthe extraordinary life of cyclist Major Taylor, America's first Black sports hero / _cMichael Kranish.
250			_aFirst Scribner hardcover edition.
263			_a1905
264		1	_aNew York : _bScribner, _c2019.
264		4	_c©2019
300			_ax, 365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations : _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliography (pages 343-349) and index.
520			_a"In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit, a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking but forgotten figure--the remarkable Major Taylor, the black man who broke racial barriers by becoming the world's fastest and most famous bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era. In the 1890s, the nation's promise of equality had failed spectacularly. While slavery had ended with the Civil War, the Jim Crow laws still separated blacks from whites, and the excesses of the Gilded Age created an elite upper class. Amidst this world arrived Major Taylor, a young black man who wanted to compete in the nation's most popular and mostly white man's sport, cycling. Birdie Munger, a white cyclist who once was the world's fastest man, declared that he could help turn the young black athlete into a champion. Twelve years before boxer Jack Johnson and fifty years before baseball player Jackie Robinson, Taylor faced racism at nearly every turn--especially by whites who feared he would disprove their stereotypes of blacks. In The World's Fastest Man, years in the writing, investigative journalist Michael Kranish reveals new information about Major Taylor based on a rare interview with his daughter and other never-before-uncovered details from Taylor's life. Kranish shows how Taylor indeed became a world champion, traveled the world, was the toast of Paris, and was one of the most chronicled black men of his day. From a moment in time just before the arrival of the automobile when bicycles were king, the populace was booming with immigrants, and enormous societal changes were about to take place, The World's Fastest Man shines a light on a dramatic moment in American history--the gateway to the twentieth century"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit, a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking but forgotten figure--the remarkable Major Taylor, the black man who broke racial barriers by becoming the world's fastest and most famous bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aTaylor, Major, _d1878-1932. _9398534
650		0	_aCyclists _zUnited States _vBiography. _969456
650		0	_aAfrican American cyclists _vBiography. _9398535
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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