Jim Reisler: 3 books
Igniting the Flame
America's First Olympic Team
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The story of the fourteen men – largely forgotten and never the subject of a full-length book – who created the American Olympic movement by winning eleven gold medals at the first modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens, timed for publication leading up to the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials and the 2012 Olympics in London.
Walk of Ages
Edward Payson Weston's Extraordinary 1909 Trek Across America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
On his seventieth birthday in 1909, a slim man with a shock of white hair, a walrus mustache, and a spring in his step faced west from Park Row in Manhattan and started walking. By the time Edward Payson Weston was finished, he was in San Francisco, having trekked 3,895 miles in 104 days.
Weston’s...
Voices of the Oral Deaf
Fourteen Role Models Speak Out
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
The deaf world is a complex one, divided by the allegiance of some to Deaf Culture, which emphasizes communication by sign-language, and by others to oralism, which emphasizes speech as the primary means of communication, and still others to a program called Total Communication, which stresses both...