The Amateurs by David Halberstam6/9/2023 Was harder to understand the son of Beacon Hill spending so much time and subjecting himself to so much pain to attain an honor that no one else even understood.'' hoping that basketball was a ticket out of the slum: it One could understand the son of a ghetto family. Yet the athletes were almost always the children of the upper middle class, privileged, affluent. Yet there was no overt financial reward at the end, nor indeed was there even any covert financial reward, a brokerage house wanting and giving special privilege ''Those who competed,'' he writes, ''did so with a demonic passion. He has drawn interviews with a number of figures in American rowing into a narrative that becomes a paean to the four oarsmen who devoted themselves to becoming Olympians ''because they wanted to, for no N ''The Amateurs,'' David Halberstam focuses on the quest of four oarsmen to become the United States's single sculler AugThe Purest Ambition of All By NORMAN HILDES-HEIM
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