Jim Thorpe: From Boarding School to Champion

Published: Aug. 23, 2022, 10 a.m.

Guest: David Maraniss is an associate editor at\xa0The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times.\xa0 Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi,\xa0Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World, They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lucas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History), and his latest, Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe.\n\n\xa0\nThe post Jim Thorpe: From Boarding School to Champion appeared first on KPFA.