{"product_id":"2940170715107","title":"C. C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race: The True Story of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run Across America","description":"Among the runners of C. C. Pyle's First Annual International \u003cbr\u003eTranscontinental Foot Race were an assortment of underdogs, including \u003cbr\u003etwenty-year-old Oklahoman and part Cherokee Andy Payne, who wanted to \u003cbr\u003ewin over the girl of his dreams and pay off the mortgage on his family's\u003cbr\u003e farm; Paul \"Hardrock\" Simpson, who was in  over his head but couldn't \u003cbr\u003elet down his North Carolina hometown; Mike Kelly, a luckless boxer from \u003cbr\u003eIndiana; Seattle's Ed Gardner, one of four black runners who encountered\u003cbr\u003e bigotry; Charles Hart, a sixty-three-year-old Englishman hoping his \u003cbr\u003ebest days weren't behind him; and Frank Johnson, a middle-aged husband, \u003cbr\u003efather, and steelworker from St. Louis who broke away from his humdrum \u003cbr\u003elife and dared to do something different.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNewspaper and magazine journalist Geoff Williams details this historic \u003cbr\u003eevent and the colorful cast of characters involved, based on firsthand \u003cbr\u003eaccounts of those who were there and interviews from many living \u003cbr\u003edescendants. \u003ci\u003eC. C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic American story so astonishing and surreal that you have to hear it to believe it.","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117519225072,"sku":"2940170715107","price":20.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170715107_p0.jpg?v=1763715514","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170715107","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}