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Arsenault, Raymond.
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Ashe, Arthur, 1943-1993.
Tennis players, Black -- Biography.
Tennis players -- United States -- Biography.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Arsenault, Raymond.
Ashe, Arthur, 1943-1993.
Tennis players, Black -- Biography.
Tennis players -- United States -- Biography.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Arthur
Ashe
: a
life
/ Raymond Arsenault.
by
Arsenault, Raymond.
Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Call #:
796.342092 A824a
Subjects
Ashe
,
Arthur
, 1943-1993.
Tennis players, Black -- Biography.
Tennis players -- United States -- Biography.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781439189047 (hc.)
Edition:
1st. ed.
Description:
xii, 767 p. : ill. (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographic references (pages 653-724) and index.
Contents:
Under the Dominion -- Playing in the shadows -- Dr. J and the Lynchburg boys -- The only raisin in a rice pudding -- The gateway -- The golden land -- Traveling man -- From Dixie to Down Under -- Advantage
Ashe
-- Openings -- Mr. Cool -- Racket man -- Doubling down -- Risky business -- South Africa -- Pros and cons -- Wimbledon 1975 -- King
Arthur
-- Affairs of the heart -- Coming back -- Off the court -- Captain
Ashe
-- Blood lines -- Hard road to glory -- Days of grace -- Final set -- Epilogue: Shadow's end.
Summary:
"The first comprehensive, authoritative biography of American icon
Arthur
Ashe
, a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual. Biographer Raymond Arsenault chronicles
Ashe
's rise to stardom on the court, but much of the book explores his off-court career as a human rights activist, philanthropist, broadcaster, writer, businessman, and celebrity. In the 1970s and 1980s,
Ashe
gained renown as an advocate for sportsmanship, education, racial equality, and the elimination of apartheid in South Africa. From 1979 on, he was forced to deal with a serious heart condition that led to multiple surgeries and blood transfusions, one of which left him HIV-positive. In 1988, after completing a three-volume history of African-American athletes, he was diagnosed with AIDS, a condition he revealed only four years later. After devoting the last ten months of his
life
to AIDS activism, he died in February 1993 at the age of forty-nine, leaving an inspiring legacy of dignity, integrity, and active citizenship. Based on prodigious research, including more than one hundred interviews, Raymond Arsenault's insightful and compelling biography puts
Ashe
in the context of both his time and the long struggle of African-American athletes seeking equal opportunity and respect."--From publisher.
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Biographies.
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