Ted reviews "Path Lit by Lightning", chronicling the life of all-star athlete Jim Thorpe. The life and career of all-star athlete Jim Thorpe are explored in "Path Lit by Lightning", a biography by ...

You’re a lot stronger than you think. Physically, you can run faster, jump higher, land firmer, and throw farther than others. You take your place among the winners. Psychologically, you’re ...

In “Path Lit by Lightning,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and biographer David Maraniss follows his subject’s steady climb to sports immortality, beginning with Thorpe’s days at the Carlisle ...

Magic City Books hosted the author of "Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe." Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss spoke about the process of writing his book, and trying to cover both the ...

Jim Thorpe’s tribal name, Path Lit by Lightning, is a memento of the stormy night in 1887 when he and his twin brother Charlie were born. In retrospect, the name seems apt for the multi-sport star who ...

David Maraniss’s “Path Lit by Lightning” is a masterful, in-depth portrait of a monumental figure. Until the rise of superstars like Michael Jordan and Serena Williams, many Americans considered Jim ...

Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss spoke about the process of writing his book, and trying to cover both the man and the myth that was Jim Thorpe. “Winning two gold medals in the decathlon and ...