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Title: SEARCHING FOR HEROES
FIFTY YEARS OF SPORTING ENCOUNTERS
By: Ian Wooldridge
Format: Paperback

List price: £8.99


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ISBN 10: 0340960884
ISBN 13: 9780340960882
Publisher: HODDER & STOUGHTON GENERAL DIVISION
Pub. date: 1 May, 2008
Pages: 432
Description: The most exhilarating sporting personalities and events of the past 40 years as seen through the eyes of the searingly honest, witty and pre-eminent journalist Ian Wooldridge.
Synopsis: At the cutting edge of sport, where winners go one way and losers the other, Ian Wooldridge made his living as a journalist. His shrewd eye went straight to the heart of sport's pressure situations, unerringly detecting courage in the competitors, and raising the spirits of his readers with his celebration of genuine heroism. His style was at one and the same time convulsively amusing and acidic. He saw the funny side, yet he was merciless in his search for the truth. SEARCHING FOR HEROES is a collection of Ian's articles on his heroes - including Mohammed Ali, Shane Warne and George Best - as well as articles on events and personalities that were on the receiving end of his more acerbic commentaries. Wooldridge brought back an intelligence to modern sports journalism, and an idealism that had become somewhat tarnished. To Ian Wooldridge sport was more than a game. It was a life.
Illustrations: b&w/colour
Publication: UK
Imprint: Hodder Paperback
Returns: Returnable
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