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An impressively detailed and informative sports history that is profusely illustrated with 40 black and white and color illustrations (including Thomas Eakins's famous paintings of the Biglin brothers rowing on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia in 1872), The Triumph of the Amateurs: The Rise, Ruin, and Banishment of Professional Rowing in the Gilded Age is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to community, college, and university library 19th Century American Sports History collections. -Jack Mason, Midwest Book Review Veteran journalist William Lanouette (a rower himself and a Kennedy School Shorenstein Center fellow in 1988-1989) offers interesting context on the sport's professional origins in his new book, The Triumph of the Amateurs: The Rise, Ruin, and Banishment of Professional Rowing in the Gilded Age (Lyons Press). - Harvard Magazine

An impressively detailed and informative sports history that is profusely illustrated with 40 black and white and color illustrations (including Thomas Eakins's famous paintings of the Biglin brothers rowing on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia in 1872), The Triumph of the Amateurs: The Rise, Ruin, and Banishment of Professional Rowing in the Gilded Age is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to community, college, and university library 19th Century American Sports History collections. -Jack Mason, Midwest Book Review Veteran journalist William Lanouette (a rower himself and a Kennedy School Shorenstein Center fellow in 1988-1989) offers interesting context on the sport's professional origins in his new book, The Triumph of the Amateurs: The Rise, Ruin, and Banishment of Professional Rowing in the Gilded Age (Lyons Press). - Harvard Magazine

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William Lanouette is a writer, historian, playwright, and public policy analyst. He has given illustrated talks about professional rowing’s lost glory and grim demise to audiences across the country. He lives in San Diego, California.

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