Full name: Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America

Author: Sharon Robinson Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780439425926 0439425921

A warm, intimate portrait of Jackie Robinson, America's sports icon, told from the unique perspective of a unique insider: his only daughter. Sharon Robinson shares memories of her famous father in this warm loving biography of the man who broke the color barrier in baseball. Jackie Robinson was an outstanding athlete, a devoted family man and a dedicated civil rights activist. The author explores the fascinating circumstances surrounding Jackie Robinson's breakthrough. She also tells the off-the-field story of Robinson's hard-won victories and the inspiring effect he had on his family, his community. . . his country! Includes never-before-published letters by Jackie Robinson, as well as photos from the Robinson family archives. Similar books: Jackie Robinson by Arnold Rampersad I am Jackie Robinson by Brad Meltzer Who Was Jackie Robinson? by Gail Herman Satchel Paige by Lesa Cline-Ransome She Loved Baseball by Audrey Vernick On Her Own Ground by A'Lelia Bundles The Last Boy by Jane Leavy Hank Aaron by Peter Golenbock I Am Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks The Closer by Mariano Rivera Rosa Parks by Eloise Greenfield Portraits of African-American Heroes by Tonya Bolden Joe DiMaggio by Richard Ben Cramer Sandy Koufax by Jane Leavy Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? by Bonnie Bader Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner Upstairs at the White House by J. B. West