About this title: Jenkins, bestselling co-author of "It's Not About the Bike," revives a forgotten piece of history in this inspirational story about a Native American football team. "The Real All Americans" is about the end of a culture and the birth of a game that has thrilled Americans for generations.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2007
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. Pages clean and bright, a tight solid copy, in a bright, clean dustjacket, in a new clear mylar dj cover.; B&W Photographs; 343 pages. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780385519878ISBN:0385519877
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 343 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. THIS USED HARDCOVER FIRST EDITION CAME FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION. BOOK IS IN NEAR NEW LIKE CONDITION AND THE DUST JACKET IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION WITH SOME EDGE WEAR. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Broadway Books
Date Published: 2008-08-12
ISBN-13:9780767926249ISBN:0767926242
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780767926249ISBN:0767926242
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"This is a fascinating book, where different themes--some positive and some negative--are intertwined. It is the story of the founding of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and its fabled football team.
Symbolically, it is interesting that Sally Jenkins begins the book by speaking of the momentous football game scheduled in 1912 between the Carlisle football team (featuring the legendary Jim Thorpe) and Army. Given that it was only a short time previously that the lugubrious incident at Wounded Knee had occurred, the game featured multiple layers of meaning.
Chapters 2 and 3 seem far afield. Cavalry officer Richard Henry Pratt is featured. He fought in the Civil War and in the Indian Wars after that. He felt that it was intolerable that Native Americans were accorded little respect and few rights. He began to have a dream that he would develop a school for Native American children to teach them relevant skills--and to strip them of their heritage at the same time. For example, students were given good proper English names, as opposed to their given names. In short, in his view (page 63), "What was needed was a large institution devoted to civilizing Indian children and fitting them for citizenship."
The old barracks at Carlisle, Pennsylvania were to be the site for this experiment. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School opened in November, 1879; the original enrollment was 147 students. The book chronicles the development of the school. And its football team. Students first started playing in the early 1880s. Coaches ranged from Vance McCormick to the legendary Pop Warner and so on. Warner was innovative and worked well with the talent that he had.
The book moves toward the climactic game with Army, which Carlisle won handily, as a matter of fact. Warner introduced the brand new "double wing" formation and bamboozled Army. Again, the layer of meaning is intriguing.
The book ends with the swift decline of the team and the school itself.
All in all, a well written and telling story. There are cultural lessons as well as interesting character sketches. A final Epilogue nicely outlines what happened to the major players afterwards. This is a book that is surely worth reading."
"If you like football, and history, this is the book for you. Fascinating, uplifting, depressing, but ultimately an insightful account of the development of a sport and a country."
"Okay-- this turned out to be a really good book for me! I learned a lot about our country, about my own great-grandmother's history because she attended the same school this was about. And, I know more about football-- I could go on Jeopardy, (okay, maybe not.) But I would highly suggest this well written sports history book for anyone looking for a change of pace, especially those who like history. Fascinating!"
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