Relentless : the stories behind the photographs / Neil Leifer with Diane K. Shah

Author:: Leifer, Neil
Published:: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.
Edition:: First edition.
Physical Description:: xiv, 384 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Additional Creators:: Shah, Diane K.

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Series:

Focus on American History series

Contents:

Introduction -- Greatest game ever played -- Photo by Neil Leifer -- Miss Leen and Anne Bancroft -- Learning the ropes -- Of armbands and armpits -- A ticket to anywhere -- First SI covers -- Neil and Walter -- Innovation and opportunity -- Ali -- The shoots I wish had never happened -- Mickey Mantle -- My short-lived crush on Doris Day -- Say hey and Sugar Ray -- Arnold Palmer -- Tokyo Olympics \'64 -- Koufax, Roseboro, Marichal, and Drysdale -- Andre Laguerre -- The great shrimp caper -- Vietnam to Mexico city -- Munich, 1972, and Peggy Fleming, 1968 -- What's luck got to do with it? -- Joe Namath -- Charles Finley -- The horse and the tiger -- Topeka capital-journal -- Henry Luce and Hedley Donovan -- From SI to Time -- The 1980 conventions -- Ed Koch, America's mayor -- Olympic gold -- Stallone and Redford -- Clint Eastwood -- Willie Nelson -- Paul Newman -- The inmate nation -- \'84 Olympics preview -- The white house plant -- Mike Tyson -- Bear Bryant -- Alec Baldwin and Mr. Connery -- Ron Brown -- Aircraft carriers and Africa -- From Time to the National -- The Gulf war -- Ali, take 2 -- At the movies -- Senior citizen tour -- Baseball with Bush -- Epilogue.

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ISBN:

9781477309483 (cloth : alk. paper)
1477309489 (cloth : alk. paper)

Note:

Includes index.

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