Required reading: A Terrible Splendor

Posted by Ron Kaplan on June 22, 2009 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

It sounds like a grade B melodrama, but The New York Times reviewed A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played, by Marshall Jon Fisher, in its Sunday book section this weekend. This is the tale of  Don Budge, Baron Gott­fried von Cramm, and Big [...]

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