Great Match Race（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　Apage-turning mix of history, horse racing, and pure
entertainment, The Great Match Race is a captivating account of
America’s first sports spectacle, a horse race that pitted North
against South in three grueling heats. On a bright afternoon in May
1823, an unprecedented sixty thousand people showed up to watch two
horses run the equivalent of nine Kentucky Derbys in the space of a
few hours. Eclipse was a majestic champion representing the North’s
evolving industrial machine, and Henry was an equine arriviste
embodying southern perceptions of superiority. Their thrilling
match race would come to represent a watershed moment in American
history, crystallizing the differences that so fundamentally
divided North and South. Renowned sports writer John Eisenberg
captures all the pulse-pounding drama and behind-thescenes tension
in an engrossing tale that, in the eyes of many reviewers, carries
on the tradition of Laura Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit.

　　”A heart-stopping account of a race that surely must rank as
one of the most thrilling on record.” (New York Times )