The Boys Of Winter

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Lake Placid Olympics, an award-winning sportswriter looks back at what has been called the greatest moment of twentieth-century sports history, the victory of the U.S. hockey team over the Soviet Union, assessing the meaning of the triumph in terms of the events of the time and the paths of the players and coaches on both sides since 1980. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.