Tune in today to hear David Maraniss talk about his latest Path Lit By Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe (Simon & Schuster 2022), the third biography in his sports trilogy which includes, When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi and Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero.
We talk about the triumphs and trials of Jim Thorpe’s extraordinary life. We talk also about the forced acculturation process by the US government, the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, and the repatriation of students buried at Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
We talk about primary documents, organization, and obsession.
“Just tell the story.”
*Thanks to Tall Paul and his song Someone Great Who Looked Like Me
*Thanks to Cat Boyd at Simon & Schuster
*Thanks also to Rev Andrew for engineering
