The Masters: Golf, Money, and Power in Augusta, Georgia Paperback - 1999
by Curt Sampson
A junior, amateur, and college golfer shares the thrilling history of the Masters golf tournament, reveals its controversial secrets and provides a complete picture of the town of Augusta, the politics, the racism--every factor that affects the greatest of all tournaments. Photos.
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Echoes and anticipation filled Penn Station.
From the jacket flap
The Masters golf tournament weaves a hypnotic spell. It is the toughest ticket in sports, with black-market tickets selling for $10,000 and more. Success at Augusta National breeds legends, while failure can overshadow even the most brilliant of careers. But as Curt Sampson, author of the bestselling Hogan, reveals in The Masters, a cold heart beats behind the warm antebellum faade of this famous Augusta course. And that heart belongs to the man who killed himself on the grounds two decades ago. Club and tournament founder Clifford Roberts, a New York stockbroker, still seems to run the place from his grave. An elusive and reclusive figure, Roberts pulled the strings that made the Masters the greatest golf tournament in the world. His story--including his relationship with presidents, power brokers, and every golf champion from Bobby Jones to Arnold Palmer to Jack Nicklaus--has never been told. Until now.
The Masters is an amazing slice of history, taking us inside the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Augusta's most famous member. It is a look at how the new South coexists with the old South: the relationships between blacks and whites, between Southerners and Northerners, between rich and poor--with such characters as James Brown, the Godfather of Soul; the great boxer Beau Jack; and Frank Stranahan, the playboy golfer and the only white pro ever banned from the tournament. The Masters is a spellbinding portrait of a tournament unlike any other.
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- Title The Masters: Golf, Money, and Power in Augusta, Georgia
- Author Curt Sampson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Villard Books, New York
- Date March 16, 1999
- ISBN 9780375753374 / 0375753370
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.28 x 0.69 in (20.37 x 13.41 x 1.75 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: South Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Geographic Orientation: Georgia
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.352
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