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Genre/Form: | Autobiography Autobiographies Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee; Jackie Joyner-Kersee; Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee; Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee; Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee; Sonja Steptoe |
ISBN: | 0446522481 9780446522489 |
OCLC Number: | 36942405 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | My roots -- Momma and daddy -- Inspirations -- One kind of grace -- Seeking an identity -- My guiding light -- A consuming passion -- Championship seasons -- My feminine mystique -- Painful realities -- A motherless child -- Mourning -- College life -- Frustration -- Bobby -- Back on track -- The carnival -- A silver lining -- Baseball, hotdogs and a proposal -- Mr. and Mrs. -- World's best -- Super woman -- Another kind of grace -- Rejuvenation -- Adored and ignored -- Asthma and other annoyances -- Heike -- Anointed -- Human relations -- At death's door -- The lesson -- Dear momma. |
Responsibility: | Jackie Joyner-Kersee with Sonja Steptoe. |
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Abstract:
An autobiography of Jackie Joyner-Kersee, who has competed in the last four Olympics and dominated the women's decathlon, in spite of being a chronic asthmatic.
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