has some great things to say about writer Bill Nack's new book about racing great Ruffian.
I bought the book yesterday, along with Man O'War and The Horse God Built for possible summer reading. Nack's book is very thin, but he's such a great writer, it doesn't matter.
And yes, "Pure Heart" is probably the greatest magazine article of all time. Apparently that essay is in the latest edition of Nack's book about Secretariat.
It is interesting there are few books exclusively about Red. Nack's book, and Raymond Woolfe's coffee table book (first published in 1974 and since reissued a couple of times) covered everything about the champion. There aren't many writers out there who have anything to add of book length about this horse.
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