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Now in paperback! *Awarded honors in nonfiction by the
Massachusetts Book Award. *A riveting true story of murder,
captivity, revenge, and escape Told with narrative skill and
exquisite historical detail Massacre on the Merrimack examines a
dark period in America's past and the bloody deeds of Hannah
Duston, who escaped her Native American captors and returned to her
settlement of Haverhill, Massachusetts, with a collection of
scalps. Jay Atkinson is the author of eight books. He has written
for the New York Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, Men's Health, and
Boston Globe magazine. He lives in Methuen, Massachusetts.
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Ice Time (Hardcover)
Jay Atkinson
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R820
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Discovery Miles 6 910
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On April 1, 1931, newspapers in all parts of the country announced
in giant headlines that Knute Rockne had died in a plane crash in
Kansas. Who was Rockne, age forty-three, to receive all this
attention? As head coach of the Notre Dame football team, he was a
celebrity whose face and voice were familiar to millions through
magazines, newspapers, and radio. At Notre Dame, he himself had
been a great football player. After graduation, he remained to
teach chemistry and coach track and football. At thirty, he was
named head football coach for the Fighting Irish, and over the next
thirteen years, his team went undefeated five times. Rockne coached
stars such as George Gipp, one of the most talented men ever to
play the game, and the "Four Horsemen," the most famous backfield
in football history. He raised the status of the coaching
profession and helped develop Notre Dame's nationwide following of
millions of Irish and other Catholics, many of whom had never even
entered a college classroom. In "Rockne" Jerry Brondfield has
recaptured the magnetism that made Rockne great. In this dramatic
and peculiarly American story, he shows how a Norwegian immigrant
could gain lasting fame as the coach of an American game at a
university founded by Frenchmen and associated with the Irish.
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