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Title

Into my own : the remarkable people and events that shaped a life / Roger Kahn.

Author

Kahn, Roger.

Publication

New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2006.

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Details

Description

x, 290 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"Roger Kahn is one of America's foremost sportswriters. After successful seasons as a newspaperman and magazine writer, he burst onto the national scene in 1972 with his memorable bestseller, The Boys of Summer, a work that went beyond sports and captured the minds and hearts of millions across the country. Now in his eighth decade, Kahn has again written a book for the hearts and minds of his readers. Chronicling his own life, Into My Own is Kahn's reflection on the eight people who shaped him as a man, a father, and a writer." "In this self-portrait, Kahn begins with his childhood in Brooklyn, reared on the verses of Homer, Shakespeare, Housman, and Millay - a curriculum set by his mother, and one that would influence his career with words. He combined his intellectual upbringing with his inherent passion for baseball, and began his sportswriting career under the legendary Stanley Woodward at the New York Herald Tribune. This gave Kahn the opportunity to interview and develop friendships with Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson - men he knew and admired for reasons far beyond their baseball abilities." "Kahn's writing is by no means limited to his sports coverage, and on the political front he devotes chapters to Eugene McCarthy and Barry Goldwater, whom he interviewed for The Saturday Evening Post - two diverse men in a turbulent era who championed their distinct versions of idealism. The Post had earlier sent Kahn to interview poet Robert Frost at his home in Vermont, a rare opportunity for any journalist, and one that resulted in the development of a marked friendship between two men of words." "Perhaps most touching is his account, straightforward but abrim with love, of the life and death - at twenty-three - of his scholar-athlete son, Roger Laurence Kahn."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Sportswriters > United States > Biography
• Kahn, Roger

Note

• Includes index.

ISBN

0312338139

LCCN

• 2006040394
• 9780312338138

OCLC

• ocm63195961
• SCSB-5253922

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries