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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: front runner
    sub title: the life of Steve Prefontaine
  name:
    name part: O'Meara, Brendan
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 320 pages, [8] pages of plates (some color) : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In the fifty years since his tragic death in a car crash, Steve Prefontaine has towered over American distance running. One of the most recognizable and charismatic figures to ever run competitively in the United States, Prefontaine has endured as a source of inspiration and fascination-a talent who presaged the American running boom of the late 1970s and helped put Nike on the map as the brand's first celebrity-athlete face. Now on the anniversary of his untimely death, author Brendan O'Meara, host of the Creative Nonfiction podcast, offers a fresh, definitive retelling of Prefontaine's life, revisiting one of the most enigmatic figures in American sports with a twenty-first-century lens. Through dozens of original interviews with family, friends, teammates and competitors, this long-overdue reappraisal of Prefontaine, the first such exhaustive treatment in almost thirty years, provides never-before-told stories about the unique talent, innovative mental strength and personal struggles that shaped Prefontaine on and off the track. Bringing new depth to an athlete long eclipsed by his brash, aggressive running style and the heartbreak of his death at twenty-four, O'Meara finds the man inside the myth, scrutinizing a legacy that has shaped American sports culture for decades. What emerges is a singular portrait of a distinctly American talent, a story written in the pines and firs of the Pacific Northwest back when running was more blue-collar love than corporate pursuit, the story of a runner whose short life casts a long, fast shadow.
  note: Brendan O'Meara.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-or
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Prefontaine, Steve
  subject:
    topic: Runners (Sports)
    geographic: Oregon
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Long-distance runners
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Track and field athletes
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Track and field
    geographic: Oregon
    geographic: Eugene
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Track and field
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Olympic athletes
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    name:
      name part: University of Oregon
    topic: Track and field
  classification: GV1061.15.P74 O64 2025
  classification: 796.42092 B
  identifier: 9780063348967
  identifier: 0063348969
  identifier: 9780063348981
  identifier: 2024060597
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250211
    record change date: 20250815152401.8
    record identifier: in00005658772