Biografi: sport

Den lyfter fram F1-legender från 1950-talet till idag. Här finns namn som Ayrton Senna, Juan Manuel Fangio, Jackie Stewart, Alain Prost och Michael Schumacher, men också moderna världsstjärnor som Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton och Max Verstappen. Med finns även berättelser om förare vars karriärer tragiskt avslutades i förtid men som ändå lämnat ett outplånligt avtryck i F1. Texten kompletteras med dokumentära fotografier som fångar både dramatiska ögonblick på banan och bakom kulisserna. Boken erbjuder inte bara sportfakta utan också personliga berättelser som hjälper dig att förstå vad som gör dessa förare så unika. Boken är skriven av den välrenommerade motorsportjournalisten Tony Dodgins, författare till bästsäljaren Formel 1: Rivalerna, som denna gång fokuserar på enskilda livsöden. Förordet är skrivet av Christian Horner, teamchef för Red Bull Racing. Tack vare författarens unika perspektiv och de gripande fotografierna hamnar du mitt i dramat, duellerna och segrarna som definierar Formel 1. Formel 1: Legendarerna är mer än en bok det är en visuell och innehållsmässig upplevelse som gläder varje motorsportfantast, oavsett om man fascineras av tekniska detaljer, inspirerande personligheter eller hastighetens estetik i all sin enkelhet. Bakom varje legend finns en berättelse. Bakom varje seger finns en människa.

The saying goes, "The second best thing about surfing is talking about it afterward."Gerry Lopez, one of the most revered surfers of all time brings readers into the intimately personal sport with Surf Is Where You Find It, a collection of stories that recount harrowing waves, epic wipeouts, and heroes encountered over a lifetime on the water. From growing up in Hawaii in the '50s and '60s, to finding the tube in the early days at Pipeline, to pioneering legendary spots like Uluwatu and G-Land in Indonesia, Lopez has traveled for surf the world over. But for him, the people stood out the most. Originally published in 2008, Surf Is Where You Find It preserves memories of surf eras gone by, and commemorates those who helped shape the surfing world today. Now, ten years and more than 50,000 copies later, Patagonia is once again re-launching the surfing classic in a fully redesigned edition with new photos. Timed to correspond with the release of a new documentary, The Yin and Yang of Gerry Lopez about Gerry produced by equally legendary surfer and skateboarder Stacy Peralta, these 38 stories and hundreds of photos offer more of Gerry than ever before. In these pages, Gerry pays homage to those who shaped surfing today -- surfing any time, anywhere, and in any way. Includes forewords by Rob Machado and The Surfer's Journal founder Steve Pezman.

Den efterlängtade biografin om världens bästa fotbollsspelare!Vinnare i kategorin Årets fotbollsbok på Cross Sports Book Awards!Cristiano Ronaldo är känd över hela planeten som den portugisiske fotbollsspelaren som är största stjärnan i spanska storklubben Real Madrid och kapten för det portugisiska landslaget. När Ronaldo flyttade från Manchester United till Real Madrid blev övergången historisk som den dyraste någonsin, med en transfersumma på nästan en miljard kronor. Ronaldos kontrakt med Real Madrid gör honom till en av de bäst betalda spelarna i världen.Ronaldo var den förste spelaren att vinna alla de fyra viktigaste utmärkelserna för Årets fotbollsspelare i England och har röstats fram som Premier Leagues bäste spelare någonsin. 2008, 2013 & 2014 vann han Ballon d Or, som världens bäste fotbollsspelare. Han är den ende spelaren i fotbollshistorien som sex säsonger i rad gjort minst 50 mål. I september 2015 blev Ronaldo tidernas främste målskytt i UEFA Champions League och i oktober samma år blev han Real Madrids främste målgörare genom tiderna.Han är med andra ord ett världsfenomen. Ändå är väldigt lite känt om människan Ronaldo. Guillem Balague har skrivit den både insiktsfulla och avslöjande biografin Cristiano Ronaldo.I svensk översättning av Jens Ahlberg.GUILLEM BALAGUE är expert på spansk fotboll för brittiska Sky Sports och skriver regelbundet om internationell fotboll i The Times. Han är också den bästsäljande författaren till de stora biografierna om Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi och Pep Guardiola.»Han är bäst i världen, ja. Det har aldrig funnits en spelare som Ronaldo och kommer troligtvis aldrig någon som Ronaldo igen.« | JOSÉ MOURINHO

Nytt praktverk om Zlatan!»Statistikern och fotbollsnörden myser, det blir knappast bättre än så här!« Betyg 5 av 5 | Fredrik Malmquist, BTJ-häftet»En massiv faktabok lika tung, elegant och lekfull som Zlatan på planen.« | Jan Gradvall, DI WeekendFör första gången samlas nu alla fakta om Zlatan Ibrahimovic i hyllningsboken Zlatan: Hårda fakta. En fotbollens motsvarighet till Guinness Rekordbok - med en huvudperson.ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC är den största svenska fotbollsstjärnan någonsin. 62 landslagsmål och hittills 31 titlar i fem av Europas största ligor är bara några exempel på hans unika status under en karriär som inleddes i Malmö FF för att sedan fortsätta i Ajax, Juventus, Inter, Milan, Barcelona, Paris Saint Germain och nu Manchester United.Zlatan har lysande summerat sin vandring från Rosengård till världens största fotbollsscener i den storsäljande självbiografin Jag är Zlatan. Men bortom historierna om den ofta kontroversiella bollgiganten finns en mängd hårdfakta. Dessa samlas nu för första gången i komplett form i Zlatan: Hårda fakta, en bok som med råge uppfyller beskrivningen »Allt du behöver veta«.Zlatan: Hårda fakta innehåller alla fakta om Zlatans drygt 680 klubbmatcher och 116 landskamper; laguppstä llningar, byten, må l, passningar, publiksiffror och domare. Men också alla klubbdrä kter, övergå ngssummor, hemmaarenor, skador, gula och rö da kort, straffsparkar, skor, tatueringar, bilar och mycket, mycket mer. Sjä lvklart rangordnas ä ven alla de klassiska målen.LARS NYLIN är författare (Svenska sportklassiker och Tusen klassiker), expert på sportstatistik och har skrivit om fotboll i bland annat Sportbladet, Dagens Nyheter och Offside. LARS SUNDH är bokens redaktör och formgivare. ZLATAN: HÅRDA FAKTA är ett rikt illustrerat praktverk i coffee table-format, tryckt i 4-färg med över 400 specialgjorda illustrationer samt ett stort antal fotografier som speglar Zlatan Ibrahimovics hela sagolika karriär.»Om du tillhör dem som inte kan få nog av fotbollsstjärnan så är nya hyllningsboken Zlatan: Hårda fakta ett måste-köp!« | AFTONBLADET»Boken är ett praktverk, en perfekt presentbok.« | BEAR BOOKS»Här är allt du någonsin behöver veta om Zlatan, plus lite till.« | BELINDA GRAHAM, TIDNINGEN KULTUREN»Man behöver minst två böcker om Zlatan Ibrahimovic hemma. Den ena är såklart hans egen och David Lagercrantz Jag är Zlatan Ibrahimovic, den andra är den här. Över 432 maffiga, intressanta och snygga sidor har författarna Lars Nylin och Lars Sundh (form) som plockat fram rolig info om Zlatans karriär. Och det är faktiskt inte bara ett rapande av mål och målpassningar utan även Den långes tatueringar, bilar och skor. Mycket god läsning i en strålande form.« | CAFÉ

Lando Norris: Road to World Champion tells the incredible story of the 2025 championship campaign and what it takes to win. Featuring a race-by-race rundown alongside over 100 stunning full-colour photographs.'Relive the euphoric highs and the gut-wrenching lows of one of the most dramatic title fights in F1 history. Nate Saunders pens an outstanding blow-by-blow account of Lando Norris’ remarkable journey to world championship glory in the face of adversity' - Lawrence Barretto, F1’s Lead Correspondent and Channel 4’s F1 Reporter‘With customary wit and warmth, Nate Saunders brilliantly retells the story of a season that defied all expectations...’ - Alex Jacques, Author of Grid to Glory Lando Norris: Road to World Champion charts his extraordinary rise to become motorsport’s 2025 standout star. From a shy, gaming-obsessed teenager to Britain’s newest Formula One World Champion, Norris’ journey is anything but straightforward. Despite starting out as an early fan favourite at McLaren – funny, relatable and refreshingly vulnerable – questions persisted about whether he had the ruthlessness required to reach the sport’s summit. But now, after recently becoming the Winner of the Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year Award and gaining an F1 title win, it seems like the only way is up for Norris.Here, Formula One journalist Nate Saunders of ESPN — a leading global multiplatform sports brand — reveals that Norris’s story is ultimately one of perseverance and authenticity. The dramatic 2025 title fight, against teammate Oscar Piastri and the formidable Max Verstappen, pushed him harder than ever and went down to the last second, but in the pressure cooker of Abu Dhabi he proved his mettle.In a full-colour celebration featuring over 100 photographs, Nate Saunders traces Lando’s journey to win the title and offers insider access to how he rewrote the script for what a champion can look like. This is the race-by-race story of a young man who faced his fears, silenced the doubters and won the biggest prize in motorsport – his way.

The New York Times bestsellerThe #1 Irish Times bestsellerThe definitive biography of Rory McIlroy, the most important, popular and confounding player of the post-Tiger era.Rory McIlroy contains multitudes. The child of a working-class family from a small town in a war-torn homeland now commutes to work in his own private jet and counts billionaires as confidants. He can overwhelm a golf course with his transcendent talent and then, at the next tournament, look utterly lost. In the same press conference, he can be golf’s most eloquent ambassador and a trash-talking troll.McIlroy’s victory at the 2025 Masters Tournament packed such an emotional punch because he is golf’s most vulnerable superstar. Across two decades as a pro he has been the anti-Tiger, letting fans into his heart and into his world. When McIlroy collapsed onto the final green at Augusta National, having finally completed the career Grand Slam, golf fans cried along with him because so many saw themselves in his struggles.Known as the most fearless writer on the golf beat for over thirty years, Alan Shipnuck traces McIlroy’s evolution from a young Northern Irish phenom to a game-changing force. Rory brings to life the heartbreaks, triumphs, tabloid romance, business disputes, and divisive politicking to fully define one of golf’s all-time great players.Alan Shipnuck, New York Times and Irish Times bestseller, April 2026

‘A band of stubborn pioneers rose from the embers of Britain’s cities after the war and created the finest automobiles the world had ever seen... High Performance tells the exhilarating tale of their journey’ Ben Collins, bestselling author of How To Drive‘High Performance is a cracking read and an adrenaline-packed tribute to the time when British mavericks “blew the bloody doors off” the competition’ Sunday TimesIn January 1964, a team of tiny red and white Mini Coopers stunned the world by winning the legendary Monte Carlo Rally. It was a stellar year for British cars that culminated in Goldfinger breaking box office records and making James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 the world’s most famous sports car.By the sixties, on road, track and silver screen the Brits were the ones to beat, winning Formula One championships and capturing hearts. Designers like John Cooper, and Colin Chapman of Lotus, dismissed as mere ‘garagisti’ by Enzo Ferrari, grabbed all the prizes, while Alex Issigonis won a knighthood for his revolutionary Mini. The E Type Jaguar was feted as the world’s sexiest car and Land Rover the most durable.But before the war only one British car had triumphed in a Grand Prix; Britain’s car builders were fiercely risk-averse. So what changed? To find out, Peter Grimsdale has gone in search of a generation of rebel creative spirits who emerged from railway arches and Nissen huts to tear up the rulebook with their revolutionary machines. Like the serial fugitives from the POW camps, they thrived on adversity, improvisation and sheer obstinate determination. High Performance celebrates Britain’s automotive golden age and the mavericks who sketched them on the back of envelopes and garage floors, who fettled, bolted and welded them together and hammered the competition in the showroom, on the road and on the track – fuelled by contempt for convention.

An Italian SCHINDLER'S LIST, this is the inspirational story of Gino Bartali, who made the greatest comeback in Tour de France history and secretly aided the Italian Resistance during the Second World War.ROAD TO VALOUR is the inspiring, against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatest comeback in Tour de France history and still holds the record for the longest gap between victories. Yet it was his actions during the Second World War, when he secretly aided the Resistance, rather than his remarkable exploits on a bike, that truly cemented his place in the hearts and minds of the Italian people.Based on nearly ten years of research, and including fascinating new interviews, this is the only book written that fully explores the scope of Bartali's wartime work. A breathtaking account of one man's unsung heroism and his resilience in the face of adversity, this is an epic tale of courage, comeback and redemption, and the untold story of one of the greatest athletes of the twentieth century.

En rafflande historia om stor talang, envishet, längtan efter att vinna, kärlek till tennisen och konflikter. Den mest aktuella och omfattande biografin om Novak Djokovic bjuder förutom hans egen berättelse på avgörande händelser under hans karriär.

Ronnie Hellström hade aldrig några andra drömmar än denna: att bli en målvakt av världsklass. Han levde sin dröm. Ja, mer än det, verkligheten överträffade drömmen. Uttagen till världslaget i VM 1974 i Västtyskland. Uttagen till världslaget i VM 1978 i Argentina. Vid tre tillfällen rankad som Europas bästa målvakt av det högt ansedda fotbollsmagasinet France Football. Han blev legendarisk och älskad tre gånger om: i Hammarby, i Kaiserslautern och via landslaget av hela svenska folket. Sepp Maier, en av Tysklands bästa målvakter genom tiderna och medlem i VM-guldlaget 1974, fick en gång frågan om i vad mån turen hade spelat in i hans karriär. Han svarade: Den största tur jag haft är att Ronnie Hellström inte föddes i Tyskland för då hade jag inte fått spela en enda landskamp. Här är boken om bajaren som var bättre än de bästa ja, bäst i världen. Här är boken om Ronnie Hellström.

'Inspiring . . . An absorbing chronicle of talent, character, pluck, and luck' Wall Street JournalTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The first definitive biography of basketball legend LeBron James, by the acclaimed author of Tiger Woods.LeBron James is the greatest basketball player of the twenty-first century and vying with Michael Jordan as the greatest of all time. The reigning king of the game, LeBron wears the crown like he was born with it. Yet his ascent has been anything but effortless and predetermined. As a child, he was a scared and lonely little boy living a nomadic existence in Akron, Ohio. Destitute and fatherless, one year he missed almost 100 days of school. Desperate, his mother placed him with a family that gave him stability and put a basketball in his hands. Bringing home Cleveland's first NBA championship was the culmination of a stellar multi-championship, multi-MVP, gold medal-decorated career -- Le Bron is the NBA's all-time leading scorer and the first active NBA player to become a billionaire. Today LeBron also produces Hollywood films and television shows, has more than 100 million followers on socia media, engages in political activism, has taken outspoken stances on racism and social injustice, and transforms lives through his visionary philanthropy. In LeBron, Jeff Benedict, the most celebrated sports biographer of our time, paints a vivid picture of LeBron's epic origin story and his meteoric rise to sports superstardom. He goes behind the scenes of LeBron's grappling with his seismic celebrity, including appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a high school junior. Based on three years of exhaustive research and more than 250 interviews, LeBron is a gripping, inspiring, and unprecedented portrait of one of the world's most captivating figures.

Läs om den pyrande konflikten mellan Ayrton Senna och Alain Prost, ordväxlingarna mellan Nigel Mansell och Nelson Piquet, kollisionen mellan James Hunt och Niki Lauda som inspirerade en stor Hollywoodfilm, samt den moderna rivaliteten mellan Lewis Hamilton och Max Verstappen. I hjärtat av Formel 1 finns en knivskarp tävlan och en outtröttlig kamp mellan förarna. Boken Formel 1 Rivaler beskriver dramatiken, unikheten och den spännande

Improve your chess by studying the greatest games of all time, from Adolf Anderssen's 'Immortal Game' to Magnus Carlsen's world championship victories, and featuring a foreword by five-times World Champion Vishy Anand.This book is written by an all-star team of authors. Wesley So is the reigning Fischer Random World Champion, the 2017 US Champion and the winner of the 2016 Grand Chess Tour. Michael Adams has been the top British player for the last quarter of a century and was a finalist in the 2004 FIDE World Championship. Graham Burgess is the author of thirty books, a former champion of the Danish region of Funen, and holds the world record for marathon blitz chess playing. John Nunn is a three-time winner of both the World Solving Championship and the British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award. John Emms is an experienced chess coach and writer, who finished equal first in the 1997 British Championship and was chess columnist of the Young Telegraph.The 145 greatest chess games of all time, selected, analysed, re-evaluated and explained by a team of British and American experts and illustrated with over 1,100 chess diagrams. Join the authors in studying these games, the cream of two centuries of international chess, and develop your own chess-playing skills - whatever your current standard. Instructive points at the end of each game highlight the lessons to be learned.First published in 1998, a second edition of The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games in 2004 included an additional twelve games. Another new edition in 2010 included a further thirteen games as well as some significant revisions to the analysis and information regarding other games in earlier editions of the book, facilitated by the use of a variety of chess software. This 2021 edition, further updated and expanded, now includes 145 games.The authors have made full use of the new generation of chess analysis engines that apply neural-network based AI.

THE BRILLIANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. ‘A searingly honest account of the Arsenal legend’s quest to recover from alcoholism. Unflinchingly brave.’ Sunday MirrorBeing Addicted was only half the story, now comes the stunning new autobiography from Tony Adams, now appearing on Strictly Come Dancing.      Tony Adams was a charismatic figure on the football field, a true leader for Arsenal and England. He won league titles in three separate decades, and after the Gunners moved to their new stadium at the Emirates, it was fitting that a statue of him was erected outside to celebrate his extraordinary career. But, for much of that time, he was also drinking heavily and eventually admitted in his book Addicted that he was an alcoholic.Now, in that book’s stunning successor Sober, Adams reveals what happened next. He discusses the impact that Arsene Wenger had when he arrived at Arsenal in 1996, and how the manager’s new methods helped extend his career and brought new success to the club. Always a great thinker on the game, Adams moved into coaching and management on retirement, playing a key role in Portsmouth’s famous FA Cup triumph in 2008, and taking on new challenges in the Netherlands, Azerbaijan, China and now Spain to broaden his perspective.He movingly explains the struggles he’s faced to stay sober for twenty years and why he set up Sporting Chance, the charity which provides treatment and support for sports stars suffering from addictions. He assesses why Arsenal have struggled to repeat the title-winning formula of his own time there.Sober is a truly inspirational memoir from someone who has battled with his demons, but has continued to take things on, one day at a time.

The New York Times bestsellerThe #1 Irish Times bestsellerThe definitive biography of Rory McIlroy, the most important, popular and confounding player of the post-Tiger era.Rory McIlroy contains multitudes. The child of a working-class family from a small town in a war-torn homeland now commutes to work in his own private jet and counts billionaires as confidants. He can overwhelm a golf course with his transcendent talent and then, at the next tournament, look utterly lost. In the same press conference, he can be golf’s most eloquent ambassador and a trash-talking troll.McIlroy’s victory at the 2025 Masters Tournament packed such an emotional punch because he is golf’s most vulnerable superstar. Across two decades as a pro he has been the anti-Tiger, letting fans into his heart and into his world. When McIlroy collapsed onto the final green at Augusta National, having finally completed the career Grand Slam, golf fans cried along with him because so many saw themselves in his struggles.Known as the most fearless writer on the golf beat for over thirty years, Alan Shipnuck traces McIlroy’s evolution from a young Northern Irish phenom to a game-changing force. Rory brings to life the heartbreaks, triumphs, tabloid romance, business disputes, and divisive politicking to fully define one of golf’s all-time great players.Alan Shipnuck, New York Times and Irish Times bestseller, April 2026

Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from America’s heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitter  Pyeongchang, February 21, 2018. In the nerve-racking final seconds of the women’s team sprint freestyle race, Jessie Diggins dug deep. Blowing past two of the best sprinters in the world, she stretched her ski boot across the finish line and lunged straight into Olympic immortality: the first ever cross-country skiing gold medal for the United States at the Winter Games. The 26-year-old Diggins, a four-time World Championship medalist, was literally a world away from the small town of Afton, Minnesota, where she first strapped on skis. Yet, for all her history-making achievements, she had never strayed far from the scrappy 12-year-old who had insisted on portaging her own canoe through the wilderness, yelling happily under the unwieldy weight on her shoulders: “Look! I’m doing it!”           In Brave Enough, Jessie Diggins reveals the true story of her journey from the American Midwest into sports history. With candid charm and characteristic grit, she connects the dots from her free-spirited upbringing in the woods of Minnesota to racing in the bright spotlights of the Olympics. Going far beyond stories of races and ribbons, she describes the challenges and frustrations of becoming a serious athlete; learning how to push through and beyond physical and psychological limits; and the intense pressure of competing at the highest levels. She openly shares her harrowing struggle with bulimia, recounting both the adversity and how she healed from it in order to bring hope and understanding to others experiencing eating disorders. Between thrilling accounts of moments of triumph, Diggins shows the determination it takes to get there-the struggles and disappointments, the fun and the hard work, and the importance of listening to that small, fierce voice: I can do it. I am brave enough.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic var en världens bästa fotbollsspelare. I den här boken får vi reda på allt om hans liv, även utanför fotbollsplanen. Vi kan läsa om hans landslagskarriär och alla klubbar han spelade i. Detta är historien om killen från Rosengård som blev en av världens bästa fotbollsspelare. En intressant bok om att lyckas mot alla odds.Ett liv är serien med lättlästa biografier. Här finns utrymme för längre och mer djupgående resonemang, vilket gör böckerna lämpliga att använda i undervisningen - och att sätta i händerna på den elev som gärna läser om personer som förändrat sin tid och påverkat hur vårt samhälle ser ut i dag.Bland våra biografier i serien Ett liv finns flera böcker om personer som förändrat sin tid och påverkat hur vårt samhälle ser ut i dag. Nu kommer en ny upplaga av biografin om Zlatan Ibrahimovic, en av Sveriges - och världens - genom tiderna största fotbollsspelare.

‘One day you’ll write a book about this club. Or, more to the point, about me. So you may as well know what I’m thinking and save it up for later when it won’t do any harm to anyone.’Brian Clough’s twenty years as Nottingham Forest manager were an unpredictable mixture of success, failure, fall-outs and alcoholism. Duncan Hamilton, initiated as a young journalist into the Brian Clough empire, was there to see it all. In this strikingly intimate biography – William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2007 – Hamilton paints a vivid portrait of one of football’s greatest managers: from Nottingham Forest’s double European Cup triumph to the torturous breakdown of relations at the club and Clough’s descent into alcoholism.Sad, joyous and personal, Hamilton’s account of life with Brian Clough is a touching tribute to a brilliant man.

Armand "Mondo" Duplantis, världens störste friidrottare har rötter i Hälsingland och i Lappland. Hans mormor Ingrid Hedlund berättar nära och familjärt om Armand som barn, som person och om hans ursprung. Hur blir man världens bäste friidrottare?  Denna bok handlar om Armand Duplantis som är utsedd till just världens bäste friidrottare 2020. Han är vid bokens tillkomst bara 21 år gammal och har redan erövrat denna oerhört hedrande utmärkelse. Boken handlar om hans uppväxt och väg till att bli världens bäste stavhoppare samt om hans rötter, hans gener bakåt i tiden. Dessa har betydelse. Varifrån kommer hans okuvliga vilja och hans styrka och sinne för teknik? Det handlar om gener och förebilder. Hans rötter i hälsingemyllan  har utan tvekan sin betydelse. Vad fick han från sina förfäder i Lappland? Självklart finns betydelsefulla gener även därifrån och naturligtvis även från pappa Gregs sida vilka kommer att vidröras endast kort. Denna bok tar upp  generna från mamma Helenas sida. Här relateras alltså huvud­sakligen Armand och hans svenska familj och dess rötter.

At a time when cycling in the United States rivaled baseball as the nation’s most popular professional sport, along came Reggie McNamara, a farmer’s son from Australia. Within a month of his arrival in the United States in 1913, he had earned the moniker “Iron Man” for his high tolerance of pain and his remarkable ability to recover from seemingly catastrophic injury. The nickname proved justified. Not only was he tough, he was also one of the best and highest-paid athletes in the world.  During his thirty-year career, McNamara won seventeen punishing six-day races along with an inestimable number of shorter distance races, including high-profile events on three different continents, peaking in 1926–27 at the age of thirty-nine. The fans, media, and his fellow professionals all idolized him as an example of the true grit needed to succeed in this grueling and dangerous sport. Late in his career, however, hard drinking and injuries took their toll, and McNamara became estranged from his wife and children. He fought back just as he always had on the race course, conquering his addiction to alcohol and becoming one of the earliest success stories of Alcoholics Anonymous.  In this humorous and exciting biography of the original Iron Man, Andrew M. Homan pulls McNamara back into the spotlight, depicting a flawed but beloved man whose success in those unrelenting six-day races came at a price.