Four Days to Glory: Wrestling with the Soul of the American Heartland

Somewhere beyond the circle of money, glitz, drugs, and controversy that characterizes professional sports in America, remnants of an ideal exist. In Iowa, that ideal survives in the form of high school wrestling.

Each a three-time state champion, Jay Borschel and Dan LeClere have a chance in their senior year to join the sport's most elite group: the "four-timers," wrestlers who win four consecutive state titles. For Jay, a ferocious competitor who feeds off criticism and doubt, a victory would mean vindication over the great mass of skeptics waiting for him to fail. For Dan, who carries on his back the burdens of his tiny farming community, the dreams of his hard-driving coach and father, and his own personal demons, another title is the only acceptable outcome.

Four Days to Glory is the story of America as told through its small towns and their connection to sport the way it was once routinely perceived: as a means of mattering to the folks next door.

Author: Mark Kreidler
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: 12/26/2007
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.74w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780060823191

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.9
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 118078 / Four Days to Glory: Wrestling with the Soul of the American Heartland

Award: Iowa High School Book Award - Nominee

About the Author
Kreidler, Mark: -

Mark Kreidler is an award-winning journalist and author of the acclaimed Four Days to Glory: Wrestling with the Soul of the American Heartland. A regular contributor to ESPN television, ESPN.com, and ESPN: The Magazine, he lives in northern California.