Evel
  • Published: 15 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9780767930529
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $38.00

Evel

The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil, and Legend

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From New York Times bestselling author Leigh Montville, this riveting and definitive new biography pulls back the red, white, and blue cape on a cultural icon--and reveals the unknown, complex, and controversial man known to millions around the world as Evel Knievel.

Evel Knievel, the father of extreme sports, was a high-flying daredevil. He was the personification of excitement and danger and showmanship, and represented a unique slice of American culture and patriotism. But behind the flash and the frenzy, who was this man in red, white, and blue?
 
With characteristic flair and insight, Leigh Montville delves into Knievel’s amazing place in pop culture, as well as his notorious dark side, exploring Knievel’s complicated and often contradictory relationships with his image, the media, his own family, and his many demons. With this all-American saga, Montville has delivered another definitive biography of a one-of-a-kind sports legend.
  • Published: 15 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9780767930529
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $38.00
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About the author

Leigh Montville

Chosen to write the cover-story obituary of Ted Williams for Sports Illustrated, LEIGH MONTVILLE also worked for twenty-one years as a sports columnist for The Boston Globe. He is the author of the bestselling At the Altar of Speed, Manute, and coauthor with Jim Calhoun of Dare to Dream. He lives in Winthrop, Massachusetts.

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Praise for Evel

  • COVER QUOTE: "Never dull.... [Montville writes] as if pulling a wheelie across every page.... Smart, rowdy fun." --The New York Times
  • "[Evel] goes beyond the action-figure image, painting Knievel in all his contradictions.... Now, in Montville's capable hands, Knievel soars again in all his profane, self-deluded glory." --Sports Illustrated
  • "In the late 1960s and early 1970s...the coolest man on earth was Evel Knievel.... Montville brings him vividly back in an outlandishly entertaining new biography." --New York Post