The “Second Half” takes a deep, season-by-season (and often play-by-play) dive into Carlisle’s remarkable football history and the sport’s evolution from a barely controlled brawl to its more nuanced modern-day structure - thanks in large part to Warner, Thorpe, and the other Carlisle teams’ innovative play. The book’s “First Half” identifies the discriminatory societal and political factors (including the Indian Removal Act) that “shaped the world Jim Thorpe and the other Carlisle School students would grow up in.” Sheinkin follows Thorpe’s and Warner’s separate trajectories until 1907, when the teenage Thorpe (who was Sac and Fox) tries out for the Carlisle football team, coached by Warner. Middle School, High School Roaring Brook 280 pp.įootball icon Jim Thorpe is the indisputable star of Undefeated, although other compelling narratives come into play, including those of the infamous Carlisle Indian Industrial School, legendary coach Glenn “Pop” Warner, and the game of football itself. The decades-long showdown culminates in the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world's close call with the third - and final - world war.Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
The Cold War game grows more precarious as weapons are pointed toward each other, with fingers literally on the trigger.
In their battle for dominance, spy planes fly above, armed submarines swim deep below, and undercover agents meet in the dead of night. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. New York Times best-selling author Steve Sheinkin presents a follow up to his award-winning book Bomb: The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon, taking listeners on a terrifying journey into the Cold War and our mutual assured destruction.Īs World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum.
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