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The Real All Americans
If you’d guess that Yale or Harvard ruled the college gridiron
in 1911 and 1912, you’d be wrong. The most popular team belonged to an
institution called the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Its story
begins with Lt. Col. Richard Henry Pratt, a fierce abolitionist who
believed that Native Americans deserved a place in American society. In
1879, Pratt made a treacherous journey to the Dakota Territory to
recruit Carlisle’s first students.
Years later, three students
approached Pratt with the notion of forming a football team. Pratt
liked the idea, and in less than twenty years the Carlisle football team
was defeating their Ivy League opponents and in the process changing
the way the game was played.
Sally Jenkins gives this story of
unlikely champions a breathtaking immediacy. We see the legendary Jim
Thorpe kicking a winning field goal, watch an injured Dwight D.
Eisenhower limping off the field, and follow the glorious rise of Coach
Glenn “Pop” Warner as well as his unexpected fall from grace.
The Real All Americans
is about the end of a culture and the birth of a game that has thrilled
Americans for generations. It is an inspiring reminder of the
extraordinary things that can be achieved when we set aside our
differences and embrace a common purpose.
Sally Jenkins, bestselling co-author of It's Not About the Bike, revives a forgotten piece of history in The Real All Americans.
In doing so, she has crafted a truly inspirational story about a
Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance
Armstrong's book was about a bike.
Biography
Sally Jenkins is an award-winning journalist for The
Washington Post and is the author and co-author of 12 books, including
four bestsellers. In 2012 she published the No.1 bestseller Sum it Up
with legendary basketball coach Pat Summitt, shortly after Summitt was
diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. In 2008 she combined a knowledge of
sports with a moonlighting passion for historical research to write The
Real All Americans, the true story of how the Carlisle Indian School
took on the Ivy League in football at the turn of the century and won,
pioneering the forward pass and other innovations.
Born in
Texas and raised in New York City, she is the daughter of legendary
sportswriter and novelist Dan Jenkins, who carted her to various
championships on summer vacations. She graduated with a degree in
English Literature from Stanford University in 1982 and launched a
career in newspapers that began with a stint as an assistant to a
Hollywood gossip columnist, and later branched out to include coverage
of the 9-11 terrorist strike on New York, Hurricane Katrina, and
profiles of various political figures for the Washington Post, including
Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Howard Dean.
In 2005 Jenkins
became the first woman ever inducted into the National Sportswriters and
Sportscasters Hall of Fame. She is a six-time winner of Columnist of
the Year awards from the Associated Press (2001, 2003, 2010, 2011) and
the Society of Professional Journalists (2001, 2011). In 2013 she won
first place from the Associated Press sports editors for a special
investigative project she conceived on the inverted world of medical
care in the National Football League, entitled "Do No Harm." Her
magazine work has appeared in Smithsonian, GQ, Sports Illustrated, and
Parade. She lives in Sag Harbor, New York, for the waters.
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