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04359aam a22006378i 4500 001 B7338856721F11E9B0A32D4697128E48 003 SILO 005 20190509010014 008 190211t20192019nyua b 001 0beng 010 $a 2019006827 020 $a 1501192604 020 $a 9781501192609 020 $a 1501192590 020 $a 9781501192593 035 $a (OCoLC)1088602185 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d GK8 $d UKMGB $d ZGW $d JQW $d HHO $d LEB $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a GV1051.T3 $b K73 2019 082 00 $a B 2 23 $a B 2 23 084 $a HIS036060 $a HIS036060 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Kranish, Michael, $e author. 245 14 $a The world's fastest man : $b the extraordinary life of cyclist Major Taylor, America's first Black sports hero / $c Michael Kranish. 246 30 $a Extraordinary life of cyclist Major Taylor : $b America's first Black sports hero 250 $a First Scribner hardcover edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Scribner, $c 2019. 300 $a x, 365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, portraits : $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliography (pages 343-349) and index. 520 $a "In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit, a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking but forgotten figure--the remarkable Major Taylor, the black man who broke racial barriers by becoming the world's fastest and most famous bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era. In the 1890s, the nation's promise of equality had failed spectacularly. While slavery had ended with the Civil War, the Jim Crow laws still separated blacks from whites, and the excesses of the Gilded Age created an elite upper class. Amidst this world arrived Major Taylor, a young black man who wanted to compete in the nation's most popular and mostly white man's sport, cycling. Birdie Munger, a white cyclist who once was the world's fastest man, declared that he could help turn the young black athlete into a champion. Twelve years before boxer Jack Johnson and fifty years before baseball player Jackie Robinson, Taylor faced racism at nearly every turn--especially by whites who feared he would disprove their stereotypes of blacks. In The World's Fastest Man, years in the writing, investigative journalist Michael Kranish reveals new information about Major Taylor based on a rare interview with his daughter and other never-before-uncovered details from Taylor's life. Kranish shows how Taylor indeed became a world champion, traveled the world, was the toast of Paris, and was one of the most chronicled black men of his day. From a moment in time just before the arrival of the automobile when bicycles were king, the populace was booming with immigrants, and enormous societal changes were about to take place, The World's Fastest Man shines a light on a dramatic moment in American history--the gateway to the twentieth century"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit, a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking but forgotten figure--the remarkable Major Taylor, the black man who broke racial barriers by becoming the world's fastest and most famous bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Taylor, Major, $d 1878-1932. 650 0 $a Cyclists $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a African American cyclists $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 19 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240716024739.0 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305015654.0 952 $l SMPE094 $d 20240104015617.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909053210.0 952 $l BJPD251 $d 20211215030527.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722061037.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20201215011219.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204094719.0 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20200130011850.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20200114014653.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110081117.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20191005013135.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20190810010451.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20190725010627.0 952 $l OOAX232 $d 20190711010151.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20190702012542.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20190608011355.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20190604034310.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190509010040.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B7338856721F11E9B0A32D4697128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search