Tigerland by Wil Haygood

Tigerland by Wil Haygood

Against the backdrop of one of the most tumultuous periods in recent American history, as riots and demonstrations spread across the nation, the Tigers of poor, segregated East High School in Columbus, Ohio did something no team from one school had ever done before: they won the state basketball and baseball championships in the same year. They defeated bigger, richer, whiter teams across the state and along the way brought blacks and whites together, eased a painful racial divide throughout the state, and overcame extraordinary obstacles on their road to success. In Tigerland, Wil Haygood gives us a spirited and stirring account of this improbable triumph and takes us deep into the personal lives of these local heroes. At the same time, he places the Tigers' story in the context of the racially charged sixties, bringing in such national figures as Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King Jr., and Richard Nixon, all of whom had a connection to the teams and a direct effect on their mythical season.

Wil Haygood is a visiting distinguished professor at Miami University in Ohio, where he teaches media, journalism, and film. He worked as a national and overseas correspondent for nearly three decades, first at The Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize nominee, and subsequently at The Washington Post. He is the author of The Butler: A Witness to History, Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Country Torn Apart, and a Wonderful Season of Healing, Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Transformed America, Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson, In Black and White: The Life and Times of Sammy Davis Jr., Two on the River, and King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Claiborne. The Butler was later turned into a critically praised film starring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey, directed by Lee Daniels. For his research for Tigerland, Haygood was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and the 2017 Patrick Henry Fellowship Literary Prize. He currently resides in Washington, D.C.

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ISBN 13	9780525432579
ISBN 10	0525432574
Title	Tigerland
Author	Wil Haygood
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2019-08-13
Number of pages	432
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