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      Sierra Sue II: The Story of A P-51 Mustang

      John Christgau

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      Tricksters in the Madhouse: Lakers vs. Globetrotters, 1948

      John Christgau

      Presents the story of the pivotal meeting between the all-white Minneapolis Lakers, favored to win the World Professional Basketball Tournament, and the Harlem Globetrotters, at the center of black basketball…

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      Kokomo Joe: The Story of the First Japanese American Jockey in the United States

      John Christgau

      The first Japanese American jockey, Kokomo Joe burst like a comet on the American horse-racing scene in the summer of 1941. As war with Japan loomed, Yoshio Kokomo Joe Kobuki…

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      The Origins of the Jump Shot: Eight Men Who Shook the World of Basketball

      John Christgau

      Before the jump shot, basketball was an earth-bound game. In fact, inventor James Naismith did not originally intend players to move with the ball. The inspired invention of the dribble…

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      The Gambler and the Bug Boy: 1939 Los Angeles and the Untold Story of a Horse Racing Fix

      John Christgau

      Scandal on the Turf! the Los Angeles Times proclaimed. It was October 1940, a mere few months after Seabiscuit had won the Santa Anita Derby, and now this bombshell: Six…

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      Enemies: World War II Alien Internment

      John Christgau

      They were called aliens and enemies. But the World War II internees John Christgau writes about were in fact ordinary people victimized by the politics of a global war. The…

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      Birch Coulie: The Epic Battle of the Dakota War

      John Christgau

      The Battle of Birch Coulie was the decisive battle in the deadly Dakota War of 1862. In Birch Coulie John Christgau recounts the dramatic events surrounding the battle. American history…

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      Michael and the Whiz Kids: A Story of Basketball, Race, and Suburbia in the 1960s

      John Christgau

      Imagine a boy, five feet tall and one hundred pounds, who wants to play high school basketball. Now imagine that he was blind until the age of six and that…

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      Incident at the Otterville Station: A Civil War Story of Slavery and Rescue

      John Christgau

      This detailed account examines the critical role that individuals played in determining the outcome of emancipation and the war.

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      Sierra Sue II: The Story of a P-51 Mustang

      John Christgau

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