Evel: The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil, and Legend
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Evel Knievel, the father of extreme sports, was a high-flying daredevil. He was the personification of excitement and danger and showmanship, and represented a unique slice of American culture and... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0385527454
ISBN13:9780385527453
Release Date:April 2011
Publisher:Doubleday Books
Length:398 Pages
Weight:1.56 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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Never Meet Your Heroes
Published by Robert Chasteen , 4 years ago
This is what a biography should be: a well-researched, well-written examination of where a person comes from and what makes his or her life worth examining. Evel Knievel was a bona fide superhero to me and my generation as we were growing up, but we didn't know the whole story. Montville expertly tells the rise and fall of self-made man Robert Craig Knievel, the moral of which is this: admire Evel's achievements but don't admire the man. This is an outstanding book.
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