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Lance Armstrong: A Biography

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Delves into the extraordinary life of the courageous and resilient cyclist who triumphed over cancer and returned to racing, realizing his dream of becoming a world champion.

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1,2003

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Format
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published
October 4, 2005 by Simon Pulse
ISBN
9781416917977
ASIN
1416917977
Language
English

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bill gutman

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Bill Gutman is the author of more than two hundred books for both children and adults in a writing career that has spanned some five decades. His first book was an adult-level biography of former basketball star Pistol Pete Maravich, and since then he has written children's and young adult biographies and profiles of many prominent sports stars such as Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Shaquille O'Neal, Ken Griffey, Jr., Bo Jackson, Brett Favre and many others.

Some of his adult books include a biography of former football coach Bill Parcells, Parcells: A Biograpy; When the Cheering Stops, interviews with some 25 former baseball players from the 1940s through the 1960s on life after baseball; Won For All: The Inside Story of the New England Patriots' Improbable Run to the Super Bowl, written with former linebacker and then Patriots assistant coach Pepper Johnson; Twice Around the Bases, written with former big league manager Kevin Kennedy; The Giants Win the Pennant! The Giants Win the Pennant! which was the story of the 1951 pennant race between the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, written with home run hero Bobby Thomson; Miracle Year, Amazing Mets, Super Jets, the story of both New York teams winning championship in 1969; Being Extreme, interviews with 22 of the most daring, high risk athletes in the world of mountain climbing, BASE jumping, ski diving, big wave surfing rock climbing, extreme skiing and snowboarding. Of more recent vintage is What if the Babe Had Kept His Red Sox: And Other Fascinating Alternate Histories from the World of Sports, a book of What Ifs. His most recent sports book is a young adult biography of Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge called All Rise: The Aaron Judge Story.

Bill's current passion is The Mike Fargo Mysteries, a series of novels and novellas about a tough detective working in the New York City of the 1920. The novel, Murder on Murderer's Row is available as both an ebook and in paperback on Amazon, an ebook on other venues. The novellas, Death of a Flapper, Murder on Broadway, Seven Days to Murder and The Grab-A-Cab Murder are currently available as ebooks. A sixth book, Roaring Twenties Cop, Mike Fargo's Own Story is told in Fargo's words and serves to bring the lead character of the series to life, as he talks about his childhood on Staten Island, the reason he became a cop, the New York City of the 1920s and some of his cases. The book serves as an introduction to the series and is available for free on the Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iBooks, Kobo and Smashwords websites.

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-Toko
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April 16,2025
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Interesting. Some parts were moving. Some parts were soiled by arrogance. Wasn't quit as inspiring as I thought it would be--but that's not to say that his win over cancer and return to the top of his sport was anything short of miraculous. I would have respected his story more if there was some acknowledgment that a higher power had a hand in his recovery. But that's just me.
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Zeatha
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April 16,2025
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Most sports followers would know of Lance, his cancer and Tour de France wins. But the fact that cancer was one of the reasons why he started winning the Tour de France and his troubled childhood and strained marriages - also a brash American - hated by the Europeans and also the European cyclists - he overcame all of that to win Tour de France seven times. His mother. Linda, to be credited with his determination and ability to come back. Very crisply written by Bill Gutman - a sports biographer.
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T-Hawk
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April 16,2025
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An interesting account of Lance's accomplishments. I found his victory over cancer to be more inspiring than his races, due to the fact that he used performance enhancing drugs to win his titles (this book was written before that became common knowledge) but it is still amazing what he accomplished after cancer. Very informative and detailed, nonetheless.
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