Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2018. Condition: As New. Dust jacket condition: Near Fine. Exclusive pre-release edition for Miami University's (Ohio) Class of 2022 as presented at the convocation of 2018. Stated First Edition and Signed by author. 420 pp text with deckled edge. No prior owner attribution or marking throughout. Like new condition. "In 1968 and 1969, Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated. Race relations were frayed as never before. Cities were aflame. Riots and demonstration spread across the nation. But in Columbus, Ohio, the Tigers of poor, segregated East High School did something no team from one school had ever done before: They won the state basketball and baseball championships in the same year. They defeated bigger, richer, whiter teams across the state and along the way brought blacks and whites together, eased a painful racial divide throughout the state, and overcame extraordinary obstacles on their road to success."
Haygood achieved fame for writing "A Butler Well Served by This Election" which became the basis for the 2013 award-winning motion picture "The Butler," directed by Lee Daniels and starring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey. He also authored "Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court nomination That Changed America."