The Secret Forgotten
A murder mystery explores the possibility that Babe Ruth was secretly of African American descent. Darwin Brenley, a newly minted attorney in Kansas City, only 26 years old, ends up with an unusual first client: LeRoy Griffin, a 95-year-old man who played professional baseball in the Negro League. LeRoy claims to possess an extraordinary morsel of secret knowledge: The iconic baseball hero George Herman Ruth, better known as Babe Ruth, was partly African American.
Soon after, LeRoy dies in his own home, his death quickly ruled a suicide. But his niece, Camille, a ballet dancer, suspects he was murdered, maybe for the secret he seemed anxious to share. As Darwin observes, "If your uncle was right, Ruth might have pulled off one of the biggest cultural shams in American history. And long before Jackie Robinson was even born." LeRoy also could have been killed because he was a pioneering activist for integration, the accomplishment of which effectively ended the Negro League, angering many African Americans. Andrews paints a fascinatingly inventive, historically revisionist tale of Ruth's early life, tumultuous from the beginning, and his rise to stardom, artfully considering the possibility that he did in fact descend from African Americans. Ruth was, in fact, dogged by such rumors in his lifetime, ones that have been conventionally dismissed, but the author reopens the case with a fresh and tantalizingly irreverent literary eye.
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Soon after, LeRoy dies in his own home, his death quickly ruled a suicide. But his niece, Camille, a ballet dancer, suspects he was murdered, maybe for the secret he seemed anxious to share. As Darwin observes, "If your uncle was right, Ruth might have pulled off one of the biggest cultural shams in American history. And long before Jackie Robinson was even born." LeRoy also could have been killed because he was a pioneering activist for integration, the accomplishment of which effectively ended the Negro League, angering many African Americans. Andrews paints a fascinatingly inventive, historically revisionist tale of Ruth's early life, tumultuous from the beginning, and his rise to stardom, artfully considering the possibility that he did in fact descend from African Americans. Ruth was, in fact, dogged by such rumors in his lifetime, ones that have been conventionally dismissed, but the author reopens the case with a fresh and tantalizingly irreverent literary eye.
Kirkus Review
The Secret Forgotten
A murder mystery explores the possibility that Babe Ruth was secretly of African American descent. Darwin Brenley, a newly minted attorney in Kansas City, only 26 years old, ends up with an unusual first client: LeRoy Griffin, a 95-year-old man who played professional baseball in the Negro League. LeRoy claims to possess an extraordinary morsel of secret knowledge: The iconic baseball hero George Herman Ruth, better known as Babe Ruth, was partly African American.
Soon after, LeRoy dies in his own home, his death quickly ruled a suicide. But his niece, Camille, a ballet dancer, suspects he was murdered, maybe for the secret he seemed anxious to share. As Darwin observes, "If your uncle was right, Ruth might have pulled off one of the biggest cultural shams in American history. And long before Jackie Robinson was even born." LeRoy also could have been killed because he was a pioneering activist for integration, the accomplishment of which effectively ended the Negro League, angering many African Americans. Andrews paints a fascinatingly inventive, historically revisionist tale of Ruth's early life, tumultuous from the beginning, and his rise to stardom, artfully considering the possibility that he did in fact descend from African Americans. Ruth was, in fact, dogged by such rumors in his lifetime, ones that have been conventionally dismissed, but the author reopens the case with a fresh and tantalizingly irreverent literary eye.
Kirkus Review
Soon after, LeRoy dies in his own home, his death quickly ruled a suicide. But his niece, Camille, a ballet dancer, suspects he was murdered, maybe for the secret he seemed anxious to share. As Darwin observes, "If your uncle was right, Ruth might have pulled off one of the biggest cultural shams in American history. And long before Jackie Robinson was even born." LeRoy also could have been killed because he was a pioneering activist for integration, the accomplishment of which effectively ended the Negro League, angering many African Americans. Andrews paints a fascinatingly inventive, historically revisionist tale of Ruth's early life, tumultuous from the beginning, and his rise to stardom, artfully considering the possibility that he did in fact descend from African Americans. Ruth was, in fact, dogged by such rumors in his lifetime, ones that have been conventionally dismissed, but the author reopens the case with a fresh and tantalizingly irreverent literary eye.
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| BN ID: | 2940162757726 |
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| Publisher: | James Venuto |
| Publication date: | 08/06/2020 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 1 MB |
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