Yankee Doodle Dandy
Subtitle: The Life and Times of Tod Sloan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 10, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780300083347
Subjects: Biography: sport; Horse Racing; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Equestrian; Sports - General; Biography & Autobiography / Sports; 1874-1933; Biography; England; Jockeys; Sloan, Tod,; United States
Description: "Sloan's innovative riding style helped to transform horse racing into the first nationally popular spectator sport, drawing huge crowds and vast amounts of betting money. But Sloan's career was crushingly ended by those who resented and envied him. A dandy, a big spender, a man whose company women loved, Sloan related to horses in an almost magical way, yet foundered in his dealings with people.

This book is the biography of a diminutive man who lived in large style as well as a fascinating cultural history that illuminates the history of horse racing and betting, the democratization of sport, changing conceptions of masculinity, the hypocrisy of Victorian morality, the lionizing and demonizing of celebrities, and a variety of other inviting topics."--BOOK JACKET.