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Round Table
Eclipse Press 2002; US$ 9.99Round Table was an everyman's horse. In an era when larger-than-life racehorses such as Native Dancer, Swaps, and Nashua became national heroes, Round Table quietly and steadily racked up victories. In Round Table: Thoroughbred Legends #16, longtime editor and writer John McEvoy tells the inspirational story of the horse who gave his all every... more...
The Seabiscuit Story
Eclipse Press 2003; US$ 9.99Using firsthand accounts of Seabiscuit's life and racing career as reported in the pages of The Blood-Horse magazine, The Seabiscuit Story tells the amazing rags-to-riches story of this 1930s horse racing phenomenon. Actual accounts of Seabiscuits rise to fame start with his first victory in a stakes race at age two, his success under new... more...
Women in Racing
Eclipse Press 2001; US$ 9.99Horse sports have long been unique in that women compete on equal terms with men and win. But horse racing was one area where women were denied access, unless in a non-physical role such as ownership, because the sport was deemed too tough, too demanding for the weaker sex. In the 1970s, that all began to change as women made inroads... more...
Great Horse Racing Mysteries
Eclipse Press 2004; US$ 9.99Did jockey Ron Hansen leap off the San Mateo Bridge, or did someone force him? Did arsonists set fire to Hawthorne Race Course after a betting scam went awry? Was the great stallion Shergar killed by the IRA, or is he living in anonymity somewhere in Ireland? Great Horse Racing Mysteries examines these baffling cases and many others. Author John McEvoy,... more...
Blind Switch
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 9.99One-time amateur boxer Jack Doyle, an irreverent and rebellious advertising account representative, goes to work one fine Chicago day and finds his desk - and his job - both gone. A two-time loser at the marriage game as well, Doyle, usually ultra-confidant, fishes himself out of a bottle to take stock, realizing, ''with a thumping finality,... more...
Close Call
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 9.99Ex-amateur boxer and failed advertising account executive Jack Doyle, hero of Blind Switch, returns to the world of thoroughbred horse racing at a suburban Chicago track. With the help of furrier-to-the-mob Moe Kellman, Doyle is hired as publicity director at Monee Park - a struggling racetrack owned by heiress Celia McCann. Celia, whose husband is... more...
Riders Down
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 9.99Why are some of America's best and most respected jockeys suddenly losing big races? And who would kill a ninety-two-year-old bookmaker? ''McEvoy has created a winning protagonist in Chicago turf writer Matt O'Connor, who has an abundance of friends in mostly low places and his finger firmly on the pulse of the national horseracing... more...
The Historiography of the Chemical Revolution
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2010; US$ 99.00This study offers a critical survey of past and present interpretations of the Chemical Revolution designed to lend clarity and direction to the current ferment of views. more...
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