Black Maestro: The Epic Life of an American Legend by Joe Drape

Black Maestro: The Epic Life of an American Legend

Joe Drape

288 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography history sports informative inspiring medium-paced
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The life of Jimmy Winkfield is an exuberant epic: the seventeenth child of Kentucky sharecroppers, he was the last black jockey to win the Kentucky Derby, and survived the Ku Klux Klan, the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, and the Nazis, and died a...

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