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Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig.(Book review)
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Jonathan Eig. Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. 420 pp. Cloth, $26.00.
Jonathan Eig, a senior special reporter for The Wall Street Journal, had wanted to write about Lou Gehrig as a third grader, when he lost out to a classmate on the coveted book report assignment. Several years ago, as he read Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit: An American Legend, Eig revisited the idea of writing about Gehrig. If Hillenbrand could weave a compelling picture of Depression Era America through a long-deceased racehorse, perhaps he might ...
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