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Abel Kiviat, National Champion - Twentieth-Century Track and Field and the Melting Pot (Hardcover)
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Abel Kiviat, National Champion - Twentieth-Century Track and Field and the Melting Pot (Hardcover)
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Abel Kiviat (1892-1991) was one of track and field's legendary
personalities, a world record-holder and Olympic medalist in the
metric mile. A teenage prodigy, he defeated Hall of Fame runners in
Madison Square Garden before his twentieth birthday. Alan S.
Katchen brings Kiviat's fascinating story to life and re-creates a
lost world, when track and field was at the height of its
popularity and occupying a central place in America's sporting
world. The seventh and oldest child of Moishe and Zelda Kiviat,
Jewish immigrants from Poland, Abel competed as 'the Hebrew runner'
for New York's famed Irish-American Athletic Club and was elected
its captain. Katchen offers a detailed account of the I-AAC's
evolution, including its close ties to the Tammany Hall political
machine, and sheds light on the rapid modernization of the sport
and the ways it provided a vehicle for the assimilation of
working-class, immigrant athletes. Overcoming bigotry and prejudice
from several of the sport's leaders, Kiviat served for fifty years
as the Amateur Athletic Union's press steward during the emergence
of broadcast media. He died at ninety-nine, just months short of
carrying the torch for the opening ceremonies of the Barcelona
Olympics. Abel Kiviat, National Champion pays tribute to a
remarkable athlete and the sport during its most dynamic and
celebrated era.
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