Jackie Robinson

I am often struck by the way American popular culture cherry picks the virtues of its heroes. We all know the story of Jackie Robinson—a stellar African American athlete who starred in multiple sports at USC and was selected by Brooklyn Dodgers’ manager Branch Rickey to be the first African American......more

One of 10 books I have recently read about Robinson and clearly the most authorative. Mere words are inadequate to sum up the amazing, thrilling, chilling, and groundbreaking life that was Jackie Robinson's, but Arnold Rampersad has done a fabulous job of breathing life into words and into the man w......more

Beautifully written biography of Robinson's whole life, including but not just baseball and athletics, gives full scope to Robinson's life and accomplishments in athletics, business and what would have been most important to him, civil rights. Rampersad is not afraid to criticize Robinson when warra......more

Was hard for me to get into initially, due to the font in the book being tiny I found myself easy to lose my place but once I got past the first couple of chapters I was in. Great book and the life of Jackie Robinson from his day with the Brooklyn Dodgers to his post playing days right up to his dea......more