| Details | Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport, but despite his colossal skills, his life was a struggle against the odds. Award-winning journalist and biographer David Maraniss discusses America’s greatest all-around athlete in conversation with Kevin Gover, the Smithsonian's undersecretary of museums and a former director of the National Museum of the American Indian. As a citizen of the Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Gover's life includes parallel experiences to Thorpe's. |
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