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In Black Maestro, Joe Drape meticulously brings to life the drama, adventures, romances, and heartbreaks of an unlikely participant in the greatest historical events of the twentieth century. It is a breathtaking narrative that takes you from pastoral Kentucky to Mob-controlled Chicago, from the horse country of Poland to the chaos of Red Square, and from freewheeling Paris to the hard-luck American South of the Depression. It is also a story that returns Jimmy Winkfield to his rightful place as an original American hero. In 1919, at the age of thirty-seven, as Bolshevik cannon fire thundered above, the already epic life of Jimmy Winkfield turned into an odyssey. With a ragtag band of Russian nobility and Polish soldiers, the son of a black sharecropper from Chilesburg, Kentucky, was entrusted with saving more than 250 of the most royal but fragile thoroughbreds left in crumbling Csarist Russia. They trekked 1,100 miles from Odessa to Warsaw for nearly three months amid the bloodiest part of the Russian Revolution, surviving gunfire and starvation....

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Fascinating.[Black Maestro] is a taut, gripping account of one man's courage amid humanity's failings. -- David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Clemente: The Passion and Grace of B A champion....[Black Maestro] makes racing shine brighter today through a brilliant reflection of a century past. --Louisville Magazine The great racetrack search has been to find a worthy successor to Seabiscuit... Drape... has brought home the winner....Terrific. --Leigh Montville, author of Ted Williams: Biography of an American Hero Fascinating...[Black Maestro] is a taut, gripping account of one man's courage amid humanity's failings. --David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero Joe Drape has brought back to vivid life one of the biggest little men in the history of American sports. --Geoffrey C. Ward, author of Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Black Maestro represents investigative history at its finest. ...A riveting, passionate portrayal of an unsung American hero. --Nick Kotz, author of Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America The great racetrack search has been to find a worthy successor to Seabiscuit Drape has brought home the winner. Terrific. --Leigh Montville, author of Ted Williams: Biography of an American Hero Joe Drape has brought back to vivid life one of the biggest little men in the history of American sports. --Geoffrey C. Ward, author of Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Fascinating [Black Maestro] is a taut, gripping account of one man s courage amid humanity s failings. --David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero Black Maestro represents investigative history at its finest. A riveting, passionate portrayal of an unsung American hero. --Nick Kotz, author of Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America A champion....[Black Maestro] makes racing shine brighter today through a brilliant reflection of a century past. --Louisville Magazine

Fascinating.[Black Maestro] is a taut, gripping account of one man's courage amid humanity's failings. -- David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Clemente: The Passion and Grace of B A champion....[Black Maestro] makes racing shine brighter today through a brilliant reflection of a century past. --Louisville Magazine The great racetrack search has been to find a worthy successor to Seabiscuit... Drape... has brought home the winner....Terrific. --Leigh Montville, author of Ted Williams: Biography of an American Hero Fascinating...[Black Maestro] is a taut, gripping account of one man's courage amid humanity's failings. --David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero Joe Drape has brought back to vivid life one of the biggest little men in the history of American sports. --Geoffrey C. Ward, author of Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Black Maestro represents investigative history at its finest. ...A riveting, passionate portrayal of an unsung American hero. --Nick Kotz, author of Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America Joe Drape has brought back to vivid life one of the biggest little men in the history of American sports. --Geoffrey C. Ward, author of Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Fascinating [Black Maestro] is a taut, gripping account of one man s courage amid humanity s failings. --David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero The great racetrack search has been to find a worthy successor to Seabiscuit Drape has brought home the winner. Terrific. --Leigh Montville, author of Ted Williams: Biography of an American Hero Black Maestro represents investigative history at its finest. A riveting, passionate portrayal of an unsung American hero. --Nick Kotz, author of Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America A champion....[Black Maestro] makes racing shine brighter today through a brilliant reflection of a century past. --Louisville Magazine

Fascinating.[Black Maestro] is a taut, gripping account of one man's courage amid humanity's failings. -- David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Clemente: The Passion and Grace of B

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Joe Drape is a reporter for the New York Times. He has won numerous national awards for news and sports writing, including the Eclipse Award for outstanding achievement in horse racing writing. He is the author of The Race for the Triple Crown. He lives in New York City.

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