The Life and Legend of Jim Thorpe
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Jim Thorpe emerged from the Sac and Fox Nation upon the Oklahoma plains to become one of America's first sports superstars, earning Olympic gold before pioneering professional football and baseball. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author David Maraniss, author of the Thorpe biography ‘Path Lit By Lightning,' discusses the life and legacy of the man who was heroic on the field but complicated off of it.
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