In time for the latest London Olympics, author David Davis goes back over a century to an earlier Olympic Games in London. There, he maps the lives of three runnersNative Canadian Tom Longboat, Italian peasant Dorando Pietri, and Irish-American Johnny Hayescrafting a vision of turn-of-the-century idealism and internationalism, culminating in the rebirth of the Olympic Games and the invention of the marathon.
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