Race Across America: Eddie Gardner and the Great Bunion Derbies

by Charles B Kastner and Charles B. Kastner

Book Overview

2020 Peace Corps Writers Paul Cowan Award for the Best Book of Non-Fiction
On April 23, 1929, the second annual Transcontinental Foot Race across America, known as the Bunion Derby, was in its twenty-fifth day. Eddie "the Sheik" Gardner, an African American runner from Seattle, was leading the race across the Free Bridge over the Mississippi River. Along with the signature outfit that earned him his nickname--a white towel tied around...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815610998
• ISBN13: 9780815610991
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.8"